DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.6911#0126
92
ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUITIES.
the sides, which were formerly ornamented with curious devices and scriptural
texts in black letter, are almost defaced.
Moreton-Hall, at present occupied by a farmer, is in tolerably good preser-
vation : it has occasionally been repaired by successive occupiers, without much
violence to its original appearance; and the present proprietor is laudably solicitous
to preserve the pristine features of this venerable mansion.
&n (Bit) i^ouse at Jsltngton,
MIDDLESEX.
Though the size and style of this building are indicative of former consequence
and grandeur, yet its specific name is unknown, and its history is involved in
uncertainty. Various traditions prevail respecting the original occupiers, and place;
but from this variation, they are all rendered suspicious*. The house is of that
class described by Strutt in a preceding extract, and seems rather to have been a town,
than a country mansion. It consists of three stories, the two uppermost of which
project considerably above that at bottom, and each projection forms a bay-
window supported on brackets, and filled with glazed timber frames. There being
no windows in the sides, we are induced to conclude that other houses were
attached to it, and therefore formed part of a row. The old walls consist of large
pieces of timber, disposed in perpendicular and horizontal directions, having the
* Some assert that it was either built by Sir Walter Raleigh, or frequented by him as a smoking tavern,
where
--— " At his hours of leisure.
He'd puff his pipe, and take his pleasure."
Sir Walter is said to have resided at another old house in Islington, now called the Pied-Bull Inn, and
frequenting this tavern, occasioned the landlord to affix to his house the sign of the Queen's Head; by which it is
still designated. In the thirtieth year of Queen Elizabeth's reign, Sir Walter obtained a patent " to make lycences
for keeping of taverns and retailing of wynes throughout England." This house is also stated to have belonged to
a family named Fowler. Another tradition is, that it was a lower lodge appertaining to Canonbury, which was
called the higher, and possessed by Queen Elizabeth. Some curious particulars relating to these subjects are
given by Mr. Moser, in the European Magazine for April, 1808.
ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUITIES.
the sides, which were formerly ornamented with curious devices and scriptural
texts in black letter, are almost defaced.
Moreton-Hall, at present occupied by a farmer, is in tolerably good preser-
vation : it has occasionally been repaired by successive occupiers, without much
violence to its original appearance; and the present proprietor is laudably solicitous
to preserve the pristine features of this venerable mansion.
&n (Bit) i^ouse at Jsltngton,
MIDDLESEX.
Though the size and style of this building are indicative of former consequence
and grandeur, yet its specific name is unknown, and its history is involved in
uncertainty. Various traditions prevail respecting the original occupiers, and place;
but from this variation, they are all rendered suspicious*. The house is of that
class described by Strutt in a preceding extract, and seems rather to have been a town,
than a country mansion. It consists of three stories, the two uppermost of which
project considerably above that at bottom, and each projection forms a bay-
window supported on brackets, and filled with glazed timber frames. There being
no windows in the sides, we are induced to conclude that other houses were
attached to it, and therefore formed part of a row. The old walls consist of large
pieces of timber, disposed in perpendicular and horizontal directions, having the
* Some assert that it was either built by Sir Walter Raleigh, or frequented by him as a smoking tavern,
where
--— " At his hours of leisure.
He'd puff his pipe, and take his pleasure."
Sir Walter is said to have resided at another old house in Islington, now called the Pied-Bull Inn, and
frequenting this tavern, occasioned the landlord to affix to his house the sign of the Queen's Head; by which it is
still designated. In the thirtieth year of Queen Elizabeth's reign, Sir Walter obtained a patent " to make lycences
for keeping of taverns and retailing of wynes throughout England." This house is also stated to have belonged to
a family named Fowler. Another tradition is, that it was a lower lodge appertaining to Canonbury, which was
called the higher, and possessed by Queen Elizabeth. Some curious particulars relating to these subjects are
given by Mr. Moser, in the European Magazine for April, 1808.