36 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 

 infinitely superior in architectural efifect. 



Why the grand old house should have been pulled down 

 to make way for such an edifice is quite inexplicable. 



WALTON HALL, FBOM THE LAKE. 



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

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

 the oak-panelling was used in building 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, though there are in- 

 numerable plates of the "Seats of the Nobility and 



