468 GODOLPHIN AND THE GODOLPHLNS. 



two epochs. The original house of the 15th century, and the 

 l7th century portion with the colonade added afterwards. 



The ancient portion of the house lies at the back, and the 

 junction between the 15th and l7th century work can be well 

 seen in the eastern wall from the garden. 



The earliest drawing known of the house is that in the 

 chart of Henry Tlllth's time, previously alluded to, which 

 shows it as consisting of two battlemented towers with a 

 house between, and the farm buildings adjacent. But valu- 

 able as this chart is, it would be unsafe to trust to it in the 

 details of the arrangement of the building. 



A later drawing (of which I give a copy. Fig. 3), was 

 copied by Dr. Borlase from the walls of Pengersick Castle, and 

 shows the old house built in the usual Tudor style with wings 

 and a battlemented wall and gateway, across the enclosed court. 



This, I am inclined to believe, is a view of the house 

 looking north, the old house facing south and not north as the 

 later one does. 



The buttressed battlemented wall which now encloses the 

 courtyard is the south wall of the main body of the building, the 

 great windows still remaining in it, and the rooms (which were 

 pulled down when the additions were made) extending over the 

 courtyard as far north as the junction between the old and new 

 work previously mentioned. In confirmation of this view, I 

 would point out that there still exists a tradition that a corridor 

 ran along the south side of this wall, evidently referring to these 

 buildings, and the same tradition states that a courtyard existed 

 south of this wall, bounded towards the south by a battlemented 

 wall and gateway, as represented in the drawing at Pengersick, 

 which also shows the archway in the present battlemented wall 

 (the main entrance into the great Hall), the windows and 

 buttresses. 



The great Hall then, I think we may assume, stretched 

 across this courtyard, and at its eastern end in the present 

 building is a smaller Hall, a fine old room, with oak ceiling 

 carved with bosses of foliage, and adorned with a carved oaken 

 screen around and above the fixeplace— -a room which bears 



