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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… numerous mansions and villas adorn the scenery. Tue-Brook Villa is an elegant building in the Italian style; it is …
Survey of London
… three houses the sole survivor is No. 66, a two-storey villa with wings which project forward at each side of the … granted to William Andrews in 1824; 31 it is a two-storey villa with a stucco front and a central porch with Roman … an arched entrance. Nos. 102 and 104, formerly Leckhampton Villa and Percy Cottage, were built under a lease granted to …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… fronted by a lawn sloping to the stream, was Pope's villa; and towards the north, in a delightful situation on …
The Environs of London
… Date of the new buildings. The Earl of Orford's well-known villa, standing on a piece of ground called in old writings, … Mr. Walpole having formed a design of enlarging his villa, and sitting it up in the Gothic style, after a tour … a minute description of the valuable collection at this villa, which is particularly interesting to the virtuoso, and …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… between 1723 and 1729, 60 seems to have been the first villa in the meadows between Orleans House and Cambridge … restricted sites- conforming to the 19th-century type of villa rather than to the eighteenth. 9 Among several built …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Pope's Grove, and in 1919 to the house called Pope's Villa in Cross Deep, which they still occupied in 1958. 66 In …
Old and New London
… day rallied by her friends on taking a short lease of "a villa at Tyburn." "Oh," replied the witty woman, "you see it …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… may be mentioned, Bardsea Hall, a good specimen of a Swiss villa; Chapel Island, on the Sands; the bold promontory or …