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DESCRIPTION OF TIIE PLATES.
intruders. An oah screen, very similar to that at Haddon, reaches across the Hall
near the door, and forms a passage, at the other end of which a door entered into
the inner court; outside of this door a Porch has existed, but is now pulled
down. From the portion of the Hall divided off by the screen, a door led to the
left, into the Dining-room and Staircase now existing. Behind the dining-room
is a long narrow room, with a fireplace and two loopholes: below the further
loophole, the oak bar of a Gatewciy, now destroyed, ran into the wall; so that
this must have been a kind of Porter’s dwelling, from which a passage led to the
extremity of the building westward, having loopholes, to enable the Porter to
survey those persons who approached the inner court. Out of the dining-room
a door enters, into what is supposed to liave been the Priest’s Dwelling. At the
eastern end of the Hall are two Bciys, richly groined, which communicated with
the Domestic Offices, now pulled down, and the staircase leading to the rooms
on the first fioor of the left wing, which was approached through a strongly
groined apartment, lighted by one very narrow window at each side of the but-
tress supporting the semicircular oriel. At C, a door still exists, which is pre-
sumed to have led into the staircase, as the wall at that point has evidently been
an interior partition; these being the only rooms without fireplaees, must liave
served as pctssage-rooms to the staircase and offices. The long range of building
to the right, built about the time of Queen Elizabeth, contains Stables, and
other Offices, and seems to have been designed to screen the Barns and other
Farm-buildings from the front of the house. The First Floor Plan is in a lighter
tint at the bottom ofthe Plate, and shews the rich ceiling ofthe Hall; in the left
wing tlie Guest Chcimber, and a small dressing-closet; tliis room is lighted by
the elegant semicircular oriel window at one end, and a four-light square-
headed window, and another two-liglit one now blocked up in the east wall:
at the further end are two openings, which originally have been doorways, lead-
ing to other rooms now pulled down. Opposite the small dressing-closet, out
of the Guest Chamber, was a similar one over the corresponding Bay of the
Hall, from which a door, at D, led into the rooms now pulled down. From
these dressing-closets, whatever was passing in tlie Hall could be distinctly seen
and heard, by means of a small opening in each, disguised in the Hall by a mask
(see Plate XIX. and description). In the riglit wing is a spacious Bed-room,
29 ft. 4 in. by 17 ft. 9 in., lighted by an octagonal Oriel TVindow, towards the
north, and a two-light window and loophole to the west (at C, in this room, is a
similar look out into the Hall), out of which was another small dressing-closet;
and from this, and the cortesponding one, led two small staircases into the roof
DESCRIPTION OF TIIE PLATES.
intruders. An oah screen, very similar to that at Haddon, reaches across the Hall
near the door, and forms a passage, at the other end of which a door entered into
the inner court; outside of this door a Porch has existed, but is now pulled
down. From the portion of the Hall divided off by the screen, a door led to the
left, into the Dining-room and Staircase now existing. Behind the dining-room
is a long narrow room, with a fireplace and two loopholes: below the further
loophole, the oak bar of a Gatewciy, now destroyed, ran into the wall; so that
this must have been a kind of Porter’s dwelling, from which a passage led to the
extremity of the building westward, having loopholes, to enable the Porter to
survey those persons who approached the inner court. Out of the dining-room
a door enters, into what is supposed to liave been the Priest’s Dwelling. At the
eastern end of the Hall are two Bciys, richly groined, which communicated with
the Domestic Offices, now pulled down, and the staircase leading to the rooms
on the first fioor of the left wing, which was approached through a strongly
groined apartment, lighted by one very narrow window at each side of the but-
tress supporting the semicircular oriel. At C, a door still exists, which is pre-
sumed to have led into the staircase, as the wall at that point has evidently been
an interior partition; these being the only rooms without fireplaees, must liave
served as pctssage-rooms to the staircase and offices. The long range of building
to the right, built about the time of Queen Elizabeth, contains Stables, and
other Offices, and seems to have been designed to screen the Barns and other
Farm-buildings from the front of the house. The First Floor Plan is in a lighter
tint at the bottom ofthe Plate, and shews the rich ceiling ofthe Hall; in the left
wing tlie Guest Chcimber, and a small dressing-closet; tliis room is lighted by
the elegant semicircular oriel window at one end, and a four-light square-
headed window, and another two-liglit one now blocked up in the east wall:
at the further end are two openings, which originally have been doorways, lead-
ing to other rooms now pulled down. Opposite the small dressing-closet, out
of the Guest Chamber, was a similar one over the corresponding Bay of the
Hall, from which a door, at D, led into the rooms now pulled down. From
these dressing-closets, whatever was passing in tlie Hall could be distinctly seen
and heard, by means of a small opening in each, disguised in the Hall by a mask
(see Plate XIX. and description). In the riglit wing is a spacious Bed-room,
29 ft. 4 in. by 17 ft. 9 in., lighted by an octagonal Oriel TVindow, towards the
north, and a two-light window and loophole to the west (at C, in this room, is a
similar look out into the Hall), out of which was another small dressing-closet;
and from this, and the cortesponding one, led two small staircases into the roof