Gardens, old and new; the country house & its garden environment (1900)
Leyland, John, 1857?-1924, ed, Tipping, H. Avray (Henry Avray), 1855-1933, ed, Country Life Limited · London, The Offices of "Country life illustrated": George Newnes, Ltd., New York : Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 171
e details of the admirable structure. It may beinteresting to note that the mansion possesses eighty rooms,with seventeen distinct fligits of stairs, and 275 glazedwindows. There is in the grounds a relic of the old times in aquaint brick dovecote. A stone path, of which some portionsmay still be… … IHB PERGOLA. Elizabeth, James 1., and Charles I., as we have seen,visited the house, and the room in which Charles slept isstill shown, with a spiral staircase by which either the moator the upper part of the house could be reached. Again, thesecret hiding-places and recesses for men who sought…
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