House and Garden 
a careful designer, who kept 
within the lines of old tradi¬ 
tion in building. The curved 
gables at the ends accentuate 
the importance of the hue 
hay windows under them. 
I he stone balustrades which 
crown the latter and the 
square entrance porch are of 
excellent design, well-worked 
out and though thev are dis¬ 
tinctly of the Renaissance 
they are in perfect keeping 
with the rest of the house. 
One of the many expedi¬ 
ents to get money out of their 
subjects resorted to by 
Charles II. and his brother 
james, was the notorious 
window tax and so heavily 
did this fall upon the owners 
of some Elizabethan houses 
that the poorer ones were 
driven to the necessity of 
walling up some of the win¬ 
dows which their ancestors 
COI.DHAM HALL, SUFFOLK 
hedges of box. The house fronts south and is shel¬ 
tered from the chill winter winds by the steep hillside 
at its hack. I'he situation accounts for the unusual 
height of the front, which, with its crenellated para¬ 
pets, curved gables and many nuillioned windows, 
still hlled with the old leaded glass lights, is of an 
unreal, almost fairy-like beauty. The tendency of 
the larger Elizabethan 
and jacohean houses 
was toward an excess 
of windows. Eord 
Bacon said of them 
that there was no com- 
fortah1e place to he 
found in them either 
“in summer by reason 
of the heat, or in win¬ 
ter by reason of the 
cold.’’ But admitting 
this to be true, it can- 
not he tlen 1 ed that 
some of them are very 
charming to look upon. 
St. )ohn’s House, 
Warwick, is one of 
the hnest examples of 
stone houses of this 
type. I'he perfectly 
.symmetrical facade is 
evidently the work of moyles court, ringwood 
h a d p r o vide d w i t h sue h 
prodigality. An instance of 
this is seen in the Manor Earm, Beanacre, where 
traces of blocked up windows may he seen in the 
left wing and on the sides of the porch. 
I bis is one of the many substantial old stone 
manor-houses to he found in the west of England, 
which were built by rich sheep raisers and cloth 
manufacturers when that section of the country 
