SMALLER TOWN HOUSES 



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FIG. 215. The Aylesford Hotel, Warwick. 



themselves to the town for society and amusement. In places 

 like Nottingham and Derby there still remain a fair number of 

 houses which were built for county magnates, but in every 

 instance they have been diverted from their original purpose 

 and have become business premises. This affords another proof, 

 if such were needed, that no lay out can be expected to retain 

 in perpetuity its original character. Half the squares of London 

 point the same moral. 



No doubt the house at Warwick, which, for the time being, 

 is the Aylesford Hotel (Fig. 215), was built for some such purpose 

 as has just been indicated ; it is a handsome and interesting 

 example of the early part of the eighteenth century. Just 

 outside the east gate is the house where Walter Savage Landor 

 was born in 1775. Another house of the same kind is that of 



