BULWICK HALL 



BuLwicK Hall, in Northamptonshire, the home of the Tryon family, 

 but, when the pictures were painted, in the occupation of Lord and Lady 

 Henry Grosvenor, is a roomy, comfortable stone building of the seven- 

 teenth century. The long, low, rather plain-looking house of two stories 

 only, is entered in an original manner by a doorway in the middle of a 

 stone passage, at right angles to the building, and connecting it with a 

 garden house. The careful classical design and balustraded parapet of 

 the outer wall of this entrance, and the repetition of the same, only with 

 arched openings, to the garden side, scarcely prepare one for the un- 

 adorned house-front ; but the whole is full of a quiet, simple dignity that 

 is extremely restful and pleasing. Other surprises of the same character 

 await one in further portions of the garden. 



Passing straight through the entrance gate there is a quiet space 

 of grass ; a level court with flagged paths, bounded on the north by the 

 house and on the east and west by the arcade and the wall of the kitchen 

 garden. The ground falls slightly southward, and the fourth side leads 

 down to the next level by grass slopes and a flight of curved steps 

 widening below. Trees and shrubs are against the continuing walls to 

 right and left, and beds and herbaceous borders are upon the grassy 

 space. The wide green walk, between long borders of hardy plants, 

 leading forward from the foot of the steps, reaches a flower-bordered 

 terrace wall, and passes through it by a stone landing to steps to right and 

 left on its further side. A few steps descend in twin flights to other 

 landings, from which a fresh flight on each side reaches the lowest garden 

 level, some nine feet below the last. The whole of this progression, 



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