Perspective view of the Count de Bark’s villa.
The dining-room e, entered from the chief drawing-room, was 40 ft. in length, with a width of 22 ft.; f shows the gallery or library filled with book-cases, and leading to the day-room h; the chief bedroom is shown at i adjoining, k is the lady’s dressing-room, l the gentleman’s dressing-room and bath; m is the nursery, with a servants’ staircase and closet adjoining; g is the servants’ serving-place at the entrance of dining-room. The light portions of the plan show the additions made; the black, the old portions of the castle. The two towers contained staircases to the attics which were formed in the high roofs.
The principal elevation faced the west. The perspective view of this front is given. Its length is 130 ft., and the height of the principal entrance from the ground to the top of the gable is 60 ft.
The south and west sides were of an equally picturesque character, but neither had any central gable. The south had triple dormer windows joined in the centre with one dormer window at each side. The two towers were seen rising above the roof, and a wide terrace with open stone Elizabethan balustrading extending the entire front, with steps down to the garden in the centre below. The terrace was 130 ft. in length. The west side had the two gables, one at each end, with three tall dormer windows in the roof; these were connected by wood balustrading, and a window with three lights was placed below each. The granite-stone ornaments in the old fronts were replaced in the new fronts.
The vignette gives a view of a small garden fountain, designed from one in the old garden at Blickling in Norfolk. The plinth is hexangular in plan, with the scrolls projecting on the three sides. To the top of the jet its height is about 9 feet.
DESIGN No. 39.
SUMMER VILLA FOR THE COUNT KINSKI, AT TEPLITZ.
