CLEVEDON COURT, D 



traced. This may be said rouglily to be the common plan 

 of the Eoman capital Ictter Hj the hall making the cross 

 stroke, but a veiy thick one ; at any rate, it forms the 

 central division of the house, with the rooms for the famlly 

 at the Upper end, and the offices for the servants at the 

 lower, according to the usual arrangement. 



The entrance is through a porch, which possesses the 

 two original doorways with Decorated mouldings, and in 

 the jambs of the outer arch are the grooves for the port- 

 cullis ; over this porch is a small room, in which was the 

 windlass for raising and lowering the portcuUis, and in the 

 angle is a windlng or newel staircase leading to this room, 

 and to the music-gallery over the screens or servants' 

 passage. At the further end of this passage, or at the 

 back of the house, is another porch, F, also with a port- 

 cuUis groove, a room over it for the windlass, and a newel 

 staircase. Three doorways, with Decorated dripstone 

 mouldings, open as usual from the screens to the buttery, 

 the pantry, and the central passage leading to the kitchen, 

 which must always have been external in a detached 

 bullding, and not part of the house, and probably on the 

 same slte as the present one ; although it has been rebuilt 

 in the Elizabethan perlod, it is placed diagonally to the 

 main building, leaving a small triangulär court, which 

 effectually prevented the smell of the cooking from entering 

 the house. The offices which touch upon this court are 

 the servants' hall, G, which seems to be part of the original 

 building, though much altered. H the bakehouse, and I 

 the scullery, have also been much altered, but have old 

 work in parts ; K is a tower divided into several storles, 

 now occupied as servants' bedrooms ; it is a very piain 

 building, with small square-headed windows, and has very 

 much the appearance of being part of the work of the 



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