The closure of Britain's high commission, a picturesque white wooden villa in the capital, Nuku'alofa, brings to an end a presence dating from the 1830s.

The surrounding streets are wooden villas and bungalows from the 1920s and 1930s.

They usually entertained at Ilinskoe during the summer months, with guests occupying various wooden villas dotted around the park.

The calamity was compounded because their house was a yali, a 19th-century wooden villa built in the Turkish style right by the Bosporus.

The style was applied almost exclusively to wooden villas of the middle classes.

Some picturesque, crisscrossing tracks were created as well as outbuildings, a house for the pheasant keeper, and a wooden villa called "Henry's Spring".

He also rents a small wooden villa and has an affair with a German actress, Monika Alt.

My own room is a wooden villa on stilts above the water, and is equipped with not one, but two Jacuzzis.

The eldest part of the town consists mostly of wooden villas and small houses.

You can hire equipment and stay overnight in wooden villas.