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Below this, the sunk story with its range of low windows shown in 
Dingley’s view remained, and bore out Evelyn’s description, as all 
its windows but one looked towards the park. > 
A drawing room on the south or prospect side, will be remem- 
bered as the handsomest room in the house. This, which projected 
from the old part of the house, was also built by Sir Edward Baynton 
Rolt ;! and I understood that it was in the walls of this part that 
the fragments, which must have been brought from Bromham Hall, 
were found. Passing into the cellar under this room, through an 
arch in the wall of the old house, I observed that it had evidently at 
_ one time been an external doorway, as the best side was that towards 
the cellar, and therefore originally the outside of the house. The 
arch was four-centred, and appeared to he of the time of Henry VIII. 
Tn the south wall of the old building I saw the jamb of a fire-place 
in situ, with a moulding of late Perpendicular character. This would 
be on the second floor, counting the sunk story. There were also 
remains of the jamb of a doorway, elaborately moulded, lower down. 
_ This was all I saw im situ. There were some remains of square- 
headed windows ; but, whether these were iz situ when taken down, 
or materials brought originally from Bromham Hall, I was unable 
to ascertain. 
I think that, if the building before being demolished had been 
_ earefully examined, and some measurements taken and drawings 
made, the plan might probably have been made out, and the date at 
any rate fixed beyond a doubt. The impression on my mind, at the 
_ time, certainly was that the building was older than the seventeenth 
century, and probably of the time of Henry VIII. This, of course, 
_ is contrary to Evelyn’s assertion that it was built by the Sir Edward 
 Baynton of his day ; but it often happens that a person is described 
_as the dwilder of a house who, in reality, only altered it. It appeared 

1 Two other rooms, on the south side of the house, were believed to have been 
built by the mother of Sir Edward Baynton Rolt, the heiress Anne Baynton, 
_who married first, Edward Rolt, Esq., and secondly, James, Lord Somerville; _ 
‘and some rooms were added by Dr. Starky, who also pulled down a small 
detached building floored with marble, of which Dingley has given a sketch 
below that of the house, and which he has marked ‘‘a privat room in the 
grove.” 
