August 10. To Cheshunt, by Wheatstone, Oakhill, and Enfield.-To the left of the new road which leads from the Edgware Road to Wheatstone, and between West End and Child's Hill, is a villa building on the summit of a hill, which, in point of architectural taste, is such as, luckily, is not often to be met with. It consists of a centre and two wings. The centre is in the Roman manner, with Grecian architraves and pediments over the windows, and the two wings terminate in towers with Gothic battlements. The towers are high in proportion to their diameter, but still not so high as the main body of the house, which is square, while the towers are round. On the centre of the roof of this main body is a piece of iron framework, which, seen from the road, has the appearance of a tent bed, with the curtains removed. We have seen nothing to compare with this building in the neighbourhood of London, and should like to know the line of life of the proprietor, and the kind of society in which he moves. Absurdities of this kind may, perhaps, sometimes do good, by rousing attention to the subject. What is grossly erroneous can be more readily detected by the mass of society, than what is perfectly correct or supremely beautiful.
