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Some account of domestic architecture in England, from Richard II to Henry VIII (1859)

Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford London, J. H. and J. Parker · leaf 237

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for thefamily. This part has always been in two stories, as shewn bythe windows, which are original, square-headed, and rathersquare or low in their proportions. In the lower room is a goodplain fireplace: this was probably the withdrawing-room, andthe room over it the bed-room. Another wing has… … WILTSHIRE. 331 longest in England, (about seventy feet). It has good buttressesand a transept-gateway, with a lofty pointed arch, chamferedonly, without mouldings. The roof is original, quite plain, witharched timbers, springing from about half way down the walls.On the opposite side of the…

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