DENBY OLD HALL AND ITS OWNERS. 



35 ft. 3 ins., and is roofed in two spans with a gutter between, 

 showing two equal sized gables on both the east and west 

 walls. To carry the roof, an internal stone wall is carried up 

 from bottom to top, dividing the house into two equal parts. 

 As it was necessary, in order to preserve the symmetry of the 

 design, for the porch to be placed in the middle of the east 

 wall, this internal wall would, if carried across, have come 

 right in the middle of the door; so, to avoid this, it is stopped 

 short a little distance from the outside wall. The ground floor 

 (see plan) contains two large rooms, a hall or house place, 



and kitchen. The partitions, form- 

 ing the passage and greatly reducing 

 the size of the hall, are modern 

 additions. At the back of the 

 inner hall is a small room, now 

 used as a dairy, and at the back 

 of the kitchen another, used as a 

 sitting room, with a cellar below ; 

 between these is a staircase, some 

 of the steps of which are said by 

 the tenant to be of solid blocks 

 of oak, but they are now cased 

 over. The upper floor, which is 

 an exact repetition of the ground 

 floor, comprises four bedrooms, 

 with a small closet or ward- 

 robe over the porch, which 

 communicates with the bed-room above the kitchen. The 

 internal partitions, with the exception of the stone cross wall 

 mentioned before, are all of timber. Owing to the way in 

 which everything, including in some cases the doors them- 

 selves, has been covered with wall-paper, it is difficult to 

 examine much of the work, but the framing of some of these 

 partitions has quite a Tudor appearance. The sills of the 

 partitions in some cases run across the doorways, a system 

 which, one would imagine, must often have proved a very 



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