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there are five other stones overlapping the corbel, two on the top, 

 one on the top and side, and two at the side, all projecting towards 

 the east, or in a line with the south face of the building. The 

 stones above the corbel have evidently been removed to permit of 

 its insertion. The stones projecting towards the east were 

 evidently keyed into another wall running north and south, at 

 right angles to that face of the Town Cellar, or at all events in a 

 direction across Paradise-street. Within the Town Cellar this 

 south-east angle is filled up and corbelled by a segment of an arch, 

 and above it by masonry, filling up the angle to the roof. The 

 arch starts from the east end, on a level with the top of the exterior 

 large corbel, bridges the angle of the building, and strikes the 

 south wall a little distance above the corbel, as if intended to 

 receive the thrust of an arch, instead of introducing a skewback for 

 that purpose. This I take to be the site of the gate and part of 

 wall mentioned by Leland, as begun tempore Kichard III. In the 

 south-west angle of the interior of the building is a similar arrange- 

 ment of arched corbel, but close to the wall plate of the roof, for what 

 purpose I cannot make a suggestion, unless there was a turned 

 stair there for access to the upper portion of the building, lighted 

 by the two windows mentioned before as being in that portion of 

 the roof. In the interior of the building on the north and west 

 sides is a ledge six inches in width, apparently to support floor 

 beams. This ledge does not appear on the south or Quay side, nor 

 at the Ship Inn or east end. The ledge is three feet below the 

 sill of the windows in Salisbury-street, the north side, and four feet 

 six inches from the present ground level. On the Quay, or south 

 side, the sills of the windows are two feet three inches above the 

 present ground level ; consequently, a floor carried on this ledge 

 would strike the centre of the windows looking on the Quay. All 

 the windows are of the Perpendicular style of architecture. The 

 two doors are pointed arched doors, and I think are the original 

 doorways. The roof is of oak and is good Early English, I think 

 the original roof, and was formerly stone-tiled with the stone slabs 

 so commonly used for roofing in this neighbourhood and in 



