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SOME PLEASING COUNTRY HOUSES 



FIG. 206. House at Ely, Cambridgeshire. 



a quaint combination of the steep coped gables of the district 

 prevalent in earlier times, with the "wide eaves, sash-windows, 

 and dormers fashionable when it was built. It has quite a 

 large number of chimneys, but the dowagers who came from 

 the great house no doubt looked for the comforts to which they 

 had always been accustomed. Several of the rooms are 

 decorated with good panelling and plaster-work, and have had 

 skill and knowledge bestowed upon their proportions and 

 design. 



The Church House at Beckley, in Sussex (Fig. 202), has no 

 projecting eaves, but above the cut-brick cornice rises a parapet 

 which effectually blocks the outlook from the dormer windows. 

 The usual plain treatment of the walls is here varied by the 

 introduction of a pilaster at each end of the front, and by 

 carrying up a slight projection from the keystone of the middle 

 window. The pilasters are surmounted by a piece of architrave 

 and frieze of the same width as the pilaster, a device which 

 displays a misconception of classic features. The two main 

 chimney-stacks are placed at the back of the principal block 



