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a floor of rough concrete. The granite doorway was removed 
about a quarter of a century since by a marine named Morris, 
under the direction of Captain Wright, r.m., to the gun-drill 
battery at Long Room, where it still remains. 
The tower at the Winter Villa is septangular, of very irregular 
plan. The two longer sides, the northern and the western, are at 
right angles ; and the three seaward, or southern faces, are 
octangular in outline, or what would be octangular if the structure 
were symmetrical to correspond. Since the tower was built, the 
ground in the rear and on the west has been raised several feet. It 
is plain, not only from the old map, but from the nature of the 
locality, that there was a little creek landing-place on the west, 
which the building was evidently intended to some extent to 
protect. 
The walls of the tower are of limestone, the dressings of granite, 
as in that at Devil's Point ; but there is a kind of string course of 
slate immediately beneath the battlements. There are two floors, 
and the original entrance was through a massive granite doorway, 
deeply splayed, at the ground level, on the north. The modern 
entrance is by a recent doorway in the upper portion of the tower, 
on the existing ground level. The foundations are laid on the 
natural rock of the low cliff, which has been partially cut away for 
the purpose. The low battlements contain both embrasures and 
loops, the latter being composed of two pieces of granite, worked 
on the inner edges to give a round aperture. 
Taking the seven faces in succession, sun ways, we have : — 1. 
The northern or landward face, containing the original door ; two 
splayed and blocked square loops in the upper floor westward ; 
and having three embrasures above with two loops alternating. 
2. The north-eastern face, the narrowest of the series, containing 
the modern door, and the battlement having one embrasure and 
one loop. 3. The eastern face, containing one small square 
opening with granite dressings in the upper floor, a drain as if 
from an old garderobe, and having in its battlement one embrasure 
and one loop. 4. The south-eastern face, having one port-hole 
in the basement, with rebated dressings and holes for the hinges 
of the shutters, as in the tower at Devil's Point ; in the upper 
floor a square opening as in No. 3 ; and above two embrasures. 
5. The southern face, with a similar porthole in the basement, but 
a modern window in the upper floor replacing the old square 
