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The county seats of Shropshire : a series of descriptive sketches, with historical and antiquarian notes, of the principal family mansions (1891)

Leach, Francis · Shrewsbury : Eddowes's Shrewsbury Journal Office · leaf 383

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s surrounded by a moat 22 feet wide, out of which on one side risesthe house, and on the other three sides, a wall. The only entrance to the court is bya gate-house of rich Elizabethan timber work. Opposite to the gate-house, on the westside of the court, stands the tower, the great hall, and an… … STOKE SAY. time.; the upper part of this building now consists of a projecting story of timber, restingon the original stone wall. This room contains a fire place with a hood, of EarlyEnglish character. The story below consists of two rooms, lighted with narrow loops, asis the ground floor, which…

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