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OLD WEST SURREY 



passed through a door and lifted a latch on the other side, was 

 not unfrequent. 



The excellent architecture of the early seventeenth cen- 



A Dog-Gate 



tury is well shown by Wyatt's Almshouses, near God aiming. 

 Here are ten lodgings for poor couples under one straight 



, r _., , ._. _ ridge, only broken by the trans- 



3p5% verse roofing of the chapel in the 



middle. 



Highly pictorial are the old tile- 

 ':/ hung granaries, set up on short piers 

 rising from the wall of the waggon- 

 shed below ; the piers topped with 

 rat-proof caps of stone or oak. How 

 well they are arranged for load- 

 ing away the sacks of corn ! The 

 waggon draws up by the stone steps ; the moveable Avooden 



Iron Drop-Handle 



