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neither of them have chimney heads. On the upper flat there 

 are other two apartments now boarded up : apparently at the 

 time the more modern part was erected this part has been left in 

 a half ruinous state. 



The modern part of the building consists of : — on the ground 

 floor, an entrance hall in the centre of main block, with a room 

 on either hand, that on the east is quite modernised, but that on 

 the west has some good old woodwork, especially the door 

 architraves. There is a curious old press in corner of entrance 

 hall : probably the old entrance to east staircase, and there is a 

 door in partition on west side which seems to have formed 

 the entrance to west staircase. The hinges of outer door are 

 also worth notice. The Hall is paved with red stone pavement 

 in squares about 13 ins. by 13 ins. set diagonally. 



The Kitchen is in the east wing with the usual large fireplace : 

 now considerably contracted; and is paved with very rough flags. 

 There is a turnpike stair in each of the inner angles formed by 

 the wings, connected by a corridor in which there is an outer 

 door opening to the north. There is also an outer door in the 

 east opening direct into the kitchen, and one on the south in 

 entrance hall. 



The first flat reached by the turnpike stairs already mentioned 

 contains a modernised drawing-room over kitchen, small ante- 

 room off same, three bedrooms and two small rooms ; the 

 bedrooms have bold timber mantelpieces, and a good deal of the 

 old timber panelling on the walls remains. 



The second flat contains four bedrooms and two small rooms. 

 The bedrooom over drawing-room contains a fine old dog grate, 

 and a very nice old carved chair. There is an attic over-reached 

 by a continuation of the west turnpike stair, whence the roof which 

 is high pitched can be seen. 



The corridor on the north seems to be the most modern part, 

 as its roof covers nearly the whole of a panel which is understood 

 to have contained the Edgar arms, the upper moulding being all 

 that is now visible above the roof. 



The upper part of old building is proj ected on corbels, which 

 are very regular, and there are good circular corbels at angles : 

 these corbels do not extend quite to the south front and the 

 modern roof has considerable bellcast at this point to cover the 

 projection in. There is a stone ridge on roof. There is a rosette 

 on face of skewput at north-east corner. 



