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r< Terence in the present Fragment is Barningham Hall, in 



Norfolk, the seat of J. T. Mott, Esq. where the east front has 



been preserved most scrupulously; not a window has been 

 altered, except in the glazing; the improvements and additions 

 have all been made in a new front towards the south, as shewn 



e sketch. This house, though it appeared large, did not 

 contain one room that was comfortable, or of a size adapted to 



lern style of living. It consisted of two parlours, in 



each of which two modern sashes had been introduced about 



sixty years ago. The slide of the annexed sketch represents the 

 house as it was in 1805, and the drawing shews the additions 

 smce made, according to the plan annexed of the ground floor; 

 towhich a library or livingroom is added overthe entrance, and 



evt< lid 



g forty-five feet by eighteen feet wide. The 





. _ original 



«mpfe style of Gothic has been preserved and restored in the 

 vesnhule and staircase, which are shewn with the plan. 



he greatest improvement in this old Mansion has been 

 ettected by adopting in the south and east fronts a style of Win- 



;, °' "' e Same date ' tho «Sh of a different form from those of 



.c * est ront. The latter were too small in the apertures to be 



c m or al>, e , while those, added to the south front, glazed with 



b- -J glass, are lno re eheerful within, and more characteristic 



could liT i "^ m ° dem bow with thre * ^h windows 



couki ji a v e Deen li)a , * 



c,c ls a circumstance rekfivo * u- . 



which has never been mentioned ' ***"**"* which is seldom attended to, and 

 which is too apt to cross the pv„ j ° f Arehitecture ' viz. the situation of the bar, 



eve, and injure the vie w or landscape. This bar ought never 





