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older pofuon of the IMUM-. I he 

 end window ..(' tlu- dining-: 

 opens upon a flight of stone s: 

 which lead tlu- fou 



an. I tin- pink and white hawthorns 

 tli.it lenJ hter 



>ur in iln to the el mal 



VnJ here 

 -!>!' ' - :ven taken of the 







the pr.. the 



the approach to the 



kitchens and the basement j-ener- 



has N-en led I . lone 



Is, x,i roofed over in part as to 



n a terra., e aNive and a quiit 



covered \\.i. Thus there 



is no back to the house, and tl.e 



- ncircle it coinpk-ti ly. 



Another illustration all-irds a 



v i't tlu- west front, now 



I (ri>m the road h> .1 mas-, 



of yews and I- \ I, < >: initially 



there was nothing between the road 



and the house but the hede and 

 a low curtain wall, which apjvar 

 in the foil-ground, and a pair 

 uilicent walnut trivs. An 



:ent view of the unclun-eJ fi'-nt is to he I .und in 

 V-.ile's "\io\s ., Seat-.." a work wh:Ji throws valuable 

 h^ht on tiie state of many country houses at the Iv^innnu ..f 

 the nineteenth century. 



1C t" the s null-west ,. irner of the hous.- are the 

 stablts, b iilt in tlu- -ame manner and as deli^htlully as the 

 house. They form t .\ it stable-yard, in one 



corner of which stands the picturesque dovecote, capable of 

 holding 2.OO3 pi-eons, a; ij standin:; sentinel over the her- 

 baceous horder Ivaeath it. The wall alon^ the line of which 







THE TERRACE. LOOKING SOITII. 





it is inult i> t\ pii'al of the majesty of design and breadth o| 

 Conception inspired by which the old builders, undeterred by 

 cost eithei oi labour or of material, carried out their plans ; 

 their walls, t be worthy of the name, should be 1511., and 

 sometime-. JOM., hi^h ; their hedges, to Iv lu-.l^-s, shuiild Iv 

 8lt. thick. Their work, two and three hundreJ years old, 

 Mill remains to testify to the care an.! skill winch they lavished 

 upon it. 



As the visitor approaches the house under the shadow of 

 one oi these monumental walls, and, turning in at the end. 



IHt HOUSE FROM THE MEADOW. 



