Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories (1902)
Malan, A[lfred] H[enry], [from old catalog] ed · New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 211
while the loss of the 178 auMe^ Ien^ magnificent gallery, two hundred and twenty-six feet long,which was situated in the eastern wing, was irreparable. Evelyn describes the architecture of the house: It is amixt fabrick twixt antiq and modern, but observable for itsbeing compleately finished, and… … of Elizabeth andJames 1., calledElizabethan bysome, by othersJacobean. A finecedar-tree, s o m e -what injured by thewinds and stormsof many years,stands close to thesouth-western angle of the house. The west front has twoporches, exactly alike, two storied, with pillars and arches, thelower story…
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