Both the form and the colour of a small house in LANGLEY PARK [fig. 95], rendered it an object unworthy of its situation; yet, from peculiar circumstances, it was not deemed advisable, either to remove it, or to hide it by plantations. I therefore recommended a Doric portico to cover the front; and thus a building formerly unsightly, because out of character with the park, became its brightest ornament, doing honour to the taste and feelings of the noble proprietor, who preserved the house for having been a favourite retreat of his mother, and which, thus ornamented, may be considered as a temple sacred to filial piety [see fig. 96].
[Langley Park, Beckenham, Kent, belonged to Lord Gwydr, or Gwydir. TT]
