ODSEY HUNDRED 



)rth wing was removed, and a beam put in to carry 

 ie wall above, and the east wall continued to the 

 mth wing, thus 



THERFIELD 



Above the north wing is a small room fitted up as 

 a chapel, with traces of a pointed window in the east 

 wall, now partly blocked and occupied by a sash 

 window. In the north wall are two isth-century 

 windows, one of two lights, the other a single light, 

 both now blocked. The chapel is lined with oak 

 bolection moulded panelling of the 

 the door to the adjoining room c 

 was part of the 17th-century exie 

 panels filled with the original squat 

 adjoining room has 

 that in the chapel, 



rectangular block. Projecting southwards from the 

 south wing is a one-story building of the same date, 

 21 ft. by 8ft. Sin., beyond which are brick out- 

 buildings and a brew-house of the 17th century ; in 

 the yard is an old deep well. 



The principal room on the ground floor, which is 

 now used as a kitchen, and may have been originally 

 so used, has been reduced by a modern lobby at 

 the south end, from which an original doorway with 

 two-centred arch and moulded jambs gives access to 

 the modern building. In the centre of the west wall 

 of the kitchen is a fireplace, 9 ft. wide with straight 

 lintel, now partly blocked ; on the opposite 

 wall is a wide round-arched recess, on either 

 side of which is a low doorway with two-centred 

 arch and moulded jambs, opening into the north 

 and south wings respectively. At either end of 

 the original room or kitchen is a four-light 

 window with pointed cjnquefoiled arches under 

 a square head, with moulded label and head 

 stops ; the jambs and mullions are moulded, and 

 a heavy mullion divides each pair of lights ; the 

 window at the south end has had one pair of 

 lights cut down to form a doorway. In the 

 north-east angle is the doorway to the turret 

 stair to the upper floor, but the stair itself is 

 gone ; a portion of the circular stairway pro- 

 jects on the outer face of the wall. The north 

 wing, now used as a scullery, had formerly a 

 two-light window in its north wall, but this 

 has been made into a doorway, only the outer 

 moulding being retained. The 1 7th-century 

 wall connecting the two wings is of brick, 

 about z2 in. thick, the old walls adjoining being 

 2 ft. 6 in. 



The south wing is entered from the enlarged 

 north wing by a 17th-century opening under a 

 four-centred arch, the original north doorway to 

 the wing having been blocked by the east wall 

 erected at that period. The window in the 

 east wall of the wing is not original. A door- 

 way of late date has been cut through the south 

 wall to give access to the yard. The one-story 

 building to the south has, on either side, a small 

 circular quatrefoiled window of clunch ; all the 

 other windows are modern. 



time of Charles II; 

 >n the south, which 

 nsion, has its upper 

 :s of clear glass; this 

 woodwork of the same period as 

 ind the brass door handles and 



nd pierced with patterns. 



Externally, the old portion, which projects about 

 10 ft. in front of the main rectory building, is covered 

 by a roof, gabled at each end, running its whole 

 length ; over the east wall of the chapel is a smaller 

 gable, the roof running into the main roof at right 

 angles. On the upper floor in the room over the 

 kitchen are two-light windows in the north and west 

 walls, similar in detail to the north window of the 

 kitchen underneath ; the window in the west wall of 

 the kitchen is modern. In the north gable is a small 

 quatrefoiled opening set in a triangular moulded 

 frame of clunch, and on the apex of the gable are 

 small cusped gablets. The outer portion of the 

 circular staircase on the north front is finished, 

 under the springing of the gable, by a plain low 

 pyramidal roof; there are some narrow loop lights 

 in it, now blocked. Some heraldic painted glass, 

 formerly in the old building, has been removed to 

 the church. 



At the foot of the sloping garden, on the south side 

 of the house, is an old fish pond. 



