192 THE FORMAL GARDEN IN ENGLAND ix.
a large seventeenth-century building known as
" the Balcony " which was the banqueting-house
to the Hall, now destroyed. This building
stands in the centre of the further side of
a square walled-in enclosure, measuring 76.0
THE BMIQTJE,T-H0U3E : SW\KKESTON
Fig. 48.
paces by 61, which was once a garden.
The building consists of two square towers
with a colonnade in three bays between,
open on the ground floor ; above this was
the banqueting-room, 16.3 x 14.0, covered in
by a lead flat with a stone parapet on both
a large seventeenth-century building known as
" the Balcony " which was the banqueting-house
to the Hall, now destroyed. This building
stands in the centre of the further side of
a square walled-in enclosure, measuring 76.0
THE BMIQTJE,T-H0U3E : SW\KKESTON
Fig. 48.
paces by 61, which was once a garden.
The building consists of two square towers
with a colonnade in three bays between,
open on the ground floor ; above this was
the banqueting-room, 16.3 x 14.0, covered in
by a lead flat with a stone parapet on both