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his diary, “Went back to Cadenham, and on the 19th to Sir Ed. 
Baynton’s at Spie Park, a place capable of being made a noble seate ; 
but the humourous old Knight has built a long single house of 2 
low stories on the precipice of an incomparable prospect, and landing 
on a bowling greene in the park. The house is like a long barne, 
and has not a window on’ the prospect side.” Dingley’s drawing 
shows the house with a partially sunk story—a principal story or first 
floor which had largish windows and in which was the main entrance 
up a few steps—a second floor with a range of lower windows exten- 
ding, as in the floor below, along the whole front—and above this 
second floor, two gables with windows in them on the left of the 
view, and four dormer windows in the roof. 
This agrees well with Evelyn’s description. We have the “ long 
single house ”—that is, I presume, a simple rectangle in plan without 
wings; “of 2 low stories ”—that is to say, he reckons the two 
principal floors only, omitting the sunk story and the attic story ; 
Janding on a bowling greene in the park ”—The view shows this 
bowling green with the bowls lying on it, rectangular, and enclosed 
by a wall which joined the house at its north-east corner where there 
appears to have been a doorway through the wall. The principal 
entrance to the green from the park was an arched doorway, appar- 
ently of the seventeenth century, nearly opposite the door of the 
house, surmounted probably by the shield of Baynton impaling 
_ Thynne which Dingley has placed above the sketch.’ 
On the right of the view the enclosing wall returns, running 
parallel to the west end of the house, and terminating near the 
_~ slope ot the hill with a pavilion or summer-house of which I believe 
traces lately remained. On the left of the view appears part of the 
_ old stables which still remain. 
_ Evelyn says that though ‘on the precipice of an Srcormnheable 
prospect, . . . . the house is like along barne, and has not a 
_ window on the prospect side.” This is characteristic also of the old 

1 Edition of 1871, p. 232. 
_ 2This Sir Edward Baynton, whom Evelyn visited, married Stuarta, daughter 
7 got Sir Thomas Thynne. 
2p2 
