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The little room has a fireplace, and some feet above it is a piece 
of moulding like a rudimentary chimney-piece. There is a bay 
window with three lights in front, and one on each side set back, 
and the whole about 2 ft. deep. From the mullions this window 
is seen to be not earlier than 1610; next to this room is the 
staircase, with a window of four lights on the landing. The 
stairs themselves are nice ones, 4 ft. 7 in. wide, of an easy 
gradient. The banisters, 16 of them on lower flight, are twisted 
like barley sugar sticks, and more graceful than a common turned 
pattern with bulge and hollow. In North wall of landing is a 
window now blocked up, and another lower down, both showing 
on outside, with a label over the lower one. 
The whole end of the room with the stairs, fireplace, and the 
peep into the small room makes a pretty picture, of which I have 
tried to make a rough sketch. 
On the first floor much of the downstairs arrangements are 
reproduced, though a passage is taken off to give separate access 
to several rooms. 
On the North is a room with painted deal panels, much like the 
one downstairs, though smaller. The door is a nice one, two- 
leaved, with a good bolt, and the architraves of the doorway are 
worth looking at, and there is another corner cupboard here also. 
One notices in this old panelling the adaptability of the builders ; 
they put big or little panels as there was room for them, with no 
matching of size asa matter of course. The upper panels are 
long, divided from lower ones by a dado, that on each side of 
doorway being short and terminated without running into the 
other along the wall. 
Off the passage is a door leading apparently to an oubliette, as 
the stairs beyond have disappeared. Near this is a small window 
from the opening in the middle of the building, which I spoke of. 
One word more about the windows. I spoke of those of the date 
of 1610, rounded mullions with a fillet ramning down the middle, 
so common in old houses in this country. On the West the six 

