Mrs. Palmer’s Villa

Ackermann’s Repository August 1824 at 126

This classical villa was built by Sir Robert Taylor for Sir Charles Asgill. The elevation is of the Tuscan order, and after a design by Palladio. For chaste and simple elegance it far surpasses all the other works of this architect, who was remarkable only in his cumbrous structures for giving space and grandeur to his apartments; and notwithstanding the comparative smallness of the villa, the apartments are large and handsome.

Our view from the river Thames, shewing the principal Front. It is built of Bath stone, and forms one of the chief embellishments of the neighbourhood of Richmond. The grounds are limited, and the whole is formed into what may be termed a lawn, which is terminated by a pretty Grecian green-house. The kitchen-garden, attached, contains an excellent hot-house and conservatory.