22 JANUARY 1927, Page 19

THE NEW BELVIDERE

[To the Editor of the SpEcrAToa.]

Stu, -In my letter relating to the treatment of the Surrey Bank at Westminster, a rather amusing error has occurred. One passage reads "the stuccoed frontages will face the blistering -sun." It should read "the Westering sun." The intention, of course, is that at that period of the day, when one is inclined for a leisurely stroll, the gleaming frontages of the suggested Belvidere Terrace would catch and reflect the afternoon sunlight.

In spite of the scorn that Ruskin and other critics have heaped on stucco, experience has amply proved that in our climate especially, and for buildings of a domestic character, well renovated stucco can yield effects of brightness not