CANAL VILLA (Kolkata)

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ADRESS-9,GALLIF STREET. ESTABLISHED BY GALLIF IN 1864. NOW UNDER IRRIGATION DEPARTMENT

Canal Villa is an austere building with hardly any ornamentation save the arches over the widows supported by pilasters on the first floor. The plinth too had arches like many buildings of that period but those were filled up long ago. The windows have glass panels, fixed louvres and louvres of wood. Each floor has two large rooms and a wooden staircase leads to the upper storey. On the outer face of the house in front of the unkempt garden is a cast iron winding staircase connected to the terrace. The area it covers is 2,243sq ft x 64,486cu ft. The house is about two feet below street level, but the drainage system is so good that even after a heavy shower there is no waterlogging. (from The Telegraph - online)