NORBURY MANOR HOUSE AND THE FITZHERBERTS. 225 
On the east 
side of what 
was the large 
outer court of 
the Manor 
House, on the 
right hand as 
you approach 
the present 
house, is a 
long barn, the 
lower story of 
which is used, 
as __ perhaps 
was originally 
the case, for a 
» cow-house. It 
. 
5 might be passed almost unnoticed from that side, having been 
_ refaced. But from the east it shows at once signs of antiquity. 
The upper part is half-timbered, and built on massive beams 
slightly projecting over the masonry. The ends of the three 
principal beams are somewhat roughly carved ; one bears a quatre- 
_ foil, another a grotesque head, and the third is represented in this 
sketch. 
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