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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt:...but about 1 foot 3 inches higher than the old floor. This room is the same size as the one below, but the east and west windows are now in the flat surface of the wall, the oriels being roofed over. Two fine mural chambers in the south-east and south-west angles exist again here, and both have stone splayed sills or thresholds seven inches below the present wood floor and eight inches above the original floor. The jambs are boldly moulded, and the heads are flat. The checks for doors are on the inside, and the crooks remain; both have a single loop. The south-west chamber (see Plate VII) was a garderobe over the one below. There is an interesting loop to the room on the north side above the roof of the adjoining building on this side. The fireplace in this room is an insertion. The door communicating with the rooms on the south side is also an insertion. Returning to the head of the stairs, we find a short circular stair in the thickness of the wall, giving access to the roof; it is at present finished by a trap-door, but originally there has been a turret at this angle, and a part of one jamb of the door remains. At Clifton Hall, Westmorland, is an example of a single turret to a pele. The exterior walling of this tower is of fine ashlar in large courses, with a bold moulded plinth 10 inches deep and 5 inches projection on the east and west sides, and moulded strings at each floor, and finished with plain splayed battlements resting on moulded strings. The second-floor windows have had moulded labels. On the north and south faces of the tower the roof labels remain, indicating clearly the height of the adjoining buildings. Those on the north side have had a steep roof, lineable with the present roof on the west face, but continued a...