Some account of domestic architecture in England from Edward I to Richard II, with notices of foreign examples and numerous illustrations of existing remains from original drawings (1882)
f the village of Ightham, in a deep hollow,and is concealed, by woods. The water of a rivulet flowsinto the moat by which the house is surrounded, and fromwhich it takes its name. It is conjectured that the build-ing was originally erected on a small island, or eyte, whichprobably gave name to the… … /.v.-,.-/;/,./-, aa. ■ ■ ~: KENT, THE MOTE, IGHTIIAM. 283 The house is of three distinct periods, the earliest of thetime of Edward n., the second of Henry vn. and the be-ginning of Henry viii., the third of Elizabeth and James i.Of the first period, the principal part remaining is the hall,which…
Architecture, Domestic
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