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Design for an unidentified villa in a Gothic style (1)
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Design for an unidentified villa in a Gothic style (1)
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This design for the principal (north) front of an unidentified stripped Gothic villa is intriguing since the composition of three wide bays emphasised by four turrets, with pointed-arch windows grouped in threes and a central entrance arch, is like the lower storeys of the south front of the semi-Indian style Guildhall, London, though more austere. What can be inferred of the plan from the porte-cochere and 12-sided lantern tower suggests the use of the Coleorton theme of porte-cochere/vestibule/entrance hall/polygon hall which was shared with the unexecuted designs for Bayham Hall, Norman Court and an unidentified country house for Thomas Baring.
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