Whilst a typical working class house contained between four and six rooms, a large middle class villa of the 1850s or 1860s could contain twelve rooms or more with separate family and service areas. The family rooms included bedrooms with adjacent dressing rooms, a W.C. but rarely a bathroom, large reception rooms with high ceilings, elaborate moulded plaster cornices and marble fireplaces. The servants were usually accommodated in attic rooms whilst the service area continued to occupy a basement containing kitchen, scullery, pantry and larder - a separate servants’ W.C. - and in the largest, a housekeeper’s room or servants’ hall. The houses were private and respectable. They were usually given names which reinforced their grandeur and respectability – ‘Albion’, ‘Richmond’ and ‘Belmont Villa’, for example, and they were usually set back from the road in gardens which, for the first time since the middle ages, became an important part of the urban home environment.