By Harold Brahspear, F.S.A. 395 



between the door rebate and the lintel, being moulded and .sunk. 

 At the west end of the south wall is an archway, similar to that 

 opposite, which opens into the south oriel. 



The north and south walls, between the oriel arches and the 

 screens, are sunk some 4in. behind the rest of the wall face, Tlie 

 break at either end is formed by a moulded jamb, of which the 

 inner member is returned at 8ft. from the floor as a string course 

 and the outer member is carried up and returned as a cornice under 

 the roof. 



The hall i-oof is supported in the middle of its length by a 

 framed couple, formed, as is tlie local manner of roof of the 

 fourteenth century, with two tapering side principals and a collar 

 at little more than half height, from which spring two smaller 

 arched principals against which the main principals stop.^ There 

 are arched braces beneath the main principals to the under side of 

 the collar. This couple is supported upon the walls by boldly- 

 projecting semi-octagonal, moulded and brattished corbels in stone, 

 carried by a small shaft in connection with the string-course 

 already described. There is a similar half-couple at the east end 

 of the hall. A single purlin, with band-moulded chamfer, carries 

 the rafters on each side, and from the purlin and the wall plates 

 spring large arched wind-braces which have their faces enriched 

 willi a series of circles Idled with sunk six-rayed stars. One or 

 two of the circles next the springers have in them flowing tracery. 

 When the roof was underbuilt a wooden cornice with brattished 

 top was inserted at the level of the plates. Only a few of the 

 miginal rafters remain, and they, together with the middle couple, 

 iire much covered with soot, showing that in the original building, 

 to which the roof belongs, the lire was u[)on a central hearth similar 

 to that of the same date still remaining at Penshurst Place. 



The noiLliern oriel has Ihmmi couipletely destroyed willi iis 

 fuundal,ion, cxcopt Iho jamb of lIic window adjoining the east 

 jnnd) of its archway. This is grooved for glass and shows that the 

 sill was .")^, ft. abov(^ the tloor, and that the lights wme ."..U'l. higli 

 with eusj.ed heads. 



' The roof of the great barn at Bradford-on-Avon is made in the same 



way, :i.=; are various cotta.ii^o roofs in I. acock villai^c. 



