FRAGMENT XXI. 





FROM A REPORT CONCERNING 



FROME HOUSE, DORSETSHIRE 



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A SEAT OF NICHOLAS GOULD, ESQ 



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character of a place will always be influenced by the style 

 of the House; and I have ever considered, that, without absolute 

 necessity, to destroy an ancient mansion, venerable by age, de- 

 notes as bad taste, as to erect a modern Castle or Abbey where 



a building of that de- 



there are no vestiges or pretensi 

 scription. 



for 



About the date of Frome House, there prevailed in England 

 a certain character of Architecture, holding a middle station 

 betwixt the baronial castle and the yeoman's habitation; it was 



the Manor House* In modern times the habits of life are 

 changed; wealth, from the success of industry or adventure, has 

 frequently become possessed of such ancient mansions; and the 

 rage for novelty has often destroyed all vestiges of ancient great- 



A most sumptuous specimen of 



kind exists in Norfolk (Wolterton Manor 



House), and has been recently published by the Society of Antiquaries from Drawings 

 by J. Adey Repton. 



