[46] The only example of an original building in which he afterwards employed it was Cliefden. At the Board of Trade the necessity of the case led him to employ the columns of the old design as an engaged order. But though he was not entirely consistent in practice, the “astylar” principle of design still continued to be regarded by him us absolutely the best.
[47] It ought to be noted, that the position of the building, which on the Pall Mall side is very unfavourable, and the exact line of its front were determined in reference to a plan for the extension of Pall Mall into the Green Park, having the Marble Arch as its entrance to the Park. A plan of this proposed alteration is given in Chapter VIII.
[48] The building was actually carried out by my brother, E. M. Barry, Esq., A.R.A.; and, under these circumstances, at the risk of some slight repetition, I have thought it better to subjoin verbatim an account of the building written by him.
[49] At a still later period he made a design, almost entirely new, to meet an intention, afterwards abandoned, of a considerable enlargement of the building.
[50] The “Italian tiles” were, I believe, first manufactured in England, to be used in Walton House.
[51] ‘The English Gentleman’s House.’
[52] The garden-front of Clare College, Cambridge, was an example which he much admired.
[53] The work was going on about the same time as the erection of Bridgewater House.
[54] In this work I believe he was much assisted by suggestions from Mr. Nesfield, the well-known landscape gardener.
[55] The illustration will show how greatly this fact tended to influence the general effect, and limit the originality of the design.