310 UNORNAMENTED HOUSE OF LATER PERIOD 



FIG. 224. House at the Corner of Stratton Street, 

 Piccadilly, London. 



some plans for small houses in the city, with four rooms on the 

 ground floor, one of which is a kitchen ; he also has a house 

 occupying the space of " three ordinary tenements," from which 

 we gather that an ordinary tenement had a frontage of 17 ft. 



The house at the corner of Stratton Street, Piccadilly 

 (Fig. 224), is typical of many of its contemporaries in London. 

 It is plain to baldness, the most interesting things about it being 

 the iron balustrades. This appears to be an early example of 

 that method of designing which works on the supposition that 

 the various faces of a building are as distinct in execution as 

 they are on the drawings, and that a rich treatment of the front 

 need not be continued along the side, nor even find an echo 

 there, although the side is equally visible. 



