30 OLD HOUSES OF DERBY. 



previous to the battle of Bosworth Field, where he lost his life ; 

 and in comparing this drawing with the one we have made of 

 the house in Tenant Street, there can be little doubt the dates are 

 very nearly, if not identical, so that the probable date is 1483 ; 

 and especially so as the styles correspond with what is called 

 Perpendicular or Plantagenet, see the embattled leaden spouts over 

 the oriel windows. The celebrated Dr. Darwin once lived in 

 this house, but who were the original owners we have been 

 unable to ascertain. We had thought that the house at Hilton 

 had formerly been the manor house ; but it proves to have 

 been an inn ; and it is said that when Mary Queen of Scots 

 was taken to Tutbury, " Lord Stafford passed through Tutbury, 

 plainly apparelled, with three or four attendants, and stayed at 

 an alehouse in Hilton, whilst the Scotch Queen and her com- 

 pany passed by." This took place on the 13th of Jan., 1585,* 

 so that it was standing in the middle of the 16th century. 

 See Plate II. 



Of the brick houses in St. Peter's Churchyard and Walker 

 Lane, we have no correct date. They may have been built in 

 the reign of William and Mary, and they have a decidedly 

 Dutch look about them. These houses, drawn on Plates III. 

 and IV. are both excellent examples, and worthy of study, 

 although of course they are faulty in design and construction. 

 The lower stories have the bald unfinished appearance before 

 remarked upon ; all this allowed, they are still very suggestive. 



The "Old Seven Stars," on Plate V., bears the date 1680, 

 so that it is clearly "Stuart," of the reign of Charles II. It will 

 be seen, on comparing this group with the brick house in St. 

 Peter's churchyard, that although it has a heavy course of brick 

 mouldings, from which the second story rises, the gable of the 

 roof differs altogether from the former ; but that in Walker Lane 

 has features in common with the latter, and may be Jacobean. 

 There is a much better style about it than there is about 

 the " Seven Stars," and the houses behind it. 



* Sir Oswald Mosley's Hist, of Tutbury, p. 184, note 230. Mr. J. Charles 

 Cox, however, tells us that he has little or no doubt that the old house at 

 Hilton, was the manor house of a small sub-manor, held under the Duchy ot 

 Lancaster, by the Wakelyn family, in the sixteenth century. 





