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By Haeold Brakspeae, A.R.I. B. A. 



OUT three miles north- west of Aldbourne on the top of the x 

 downs is situated the old manor-house of the Groddards of 

 XJpham, now for the most part degenerated into a farm-store, with 

 the hall divided into kitchen and parlour for the use of the present 

 occupier. "With the exception of a few alterations which will be 

 noticed later, the building is all one date, of about the middle 

 of the sixteenth century. It is rectangular on plan, with a central 

 projecting porch and two square bay-windows towards the front, 

 and is built in bands of flints and freestone with dressings of the 

 latter. 



The porch has a handsome arched entrance doorway surmounted 

 by a bracketted entablature with circular plaques in the spandrils ; 

 upon the frieze over the keystone are the letters and date E. Gr., 

 E.Gr., 1599. At either end of the lintel of the two-light transomed 

 window in the gable above are the letters T.Gk, and A.Gr. ; these 

 initials also occur in the pointed oval panel below the window. 

 The inner door and moulded wooden frame are of the time of 

 Queen Anne. 



The hall occupied the front of the house from the porch towards 

 the right ; the oriel has been walled up, and the small window 

 between it and the porch enlarged by the insertion of a timber- 

 framed casement under the original sill ; the same has been done to 

 what was the end window of the hall. The original chimney-piece 

 remains ; it has a bold ornamental frieze above which are the arms 

 of Queen Elizabeth in plaster work, well modelled in high relief ; 

 the arms themselves with the sinister supporter are much mutilated, 

 but the dexter supporter (a lion rampant crowned) is in excellent 

 preservation. On a scroll below is the motto, honi soit qui mal 



Y PENSE. 



