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BIOGRAPHY. 



front of the house is, strange to say, the worst part of it, 

 being a flat, smooth, stone wall, with three rows of oblong 

 windows, eight in a row. The only specimen of architec- 

 ture which could approach it in this respect is a work- 

 house of the same date,- those of modern times being 

 infhiitely superior in architectnral effect. 



Why the grand old house should have been pulled down 

 to make way for such an edifice is c^uite inexplicable. 



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WALlXiN HALL, 1 L.Jil i;iL LAKK. 



Very few houses will be found witli an oak-panelled hall 

 ninety feet in length. Yet all this was destroyed ; part of 

 the oak-panelling was used in buildinj:^ a pigeon-house, and 

 the rest was burned. Such was the state of architecture 

 in the days " when George the Third was king." 



Unfortunately, no paintings or engravings of this most 

 memorable house are in existence, tliough there are in- 

 numerable plates of the " Seats of the Nobility and 



