. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE It ii ; building of two stories with attics, and is partly built of brick and partly of timber framing covered with cement. It was probably originally a house of late 16th-centurj- date, but it has been so much altered and added to in the 17th and ]8ih centuries that the old plan is lost. The west side is the oldest part, and the cellar under this appears to be the only 16th-century work remaining. In one of the cellar; is a blocked window in the east wall, probably originally an outside wall ; in the
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE It ii ; building of two stories with attics, and is partly built of brick and partly of timber framing covered with cement. It was probably originally a house of late 16th-centurj- date, but it has been so much altered and added to in the 17th and ]8ih centuries that the old plan is lost. The west side is the oldest part, and the cellar under this appears to be the only 16th-century work remaining. In one of the cellar; is a blocked window in the east wall, probably originally an outside wall ; in the south wall of the same cellar are two small triangular-headed niches, similar to those at Watton Place, Wymondley Bury, and othe: old houses in the county. In an angle on the west front is a timber-framed staircase, cemented externally, probably of 17th-century date. The north, south and east fronts are mainly additions of the early 18th century. In the window of a room on the west side is some old heraldic glass; one por- have free warren, and to crenellate the ; Sir Andrew Ogard was by birth a Dane, who received letters of denization in England in 1+; He wai a 'knight, chamberlain, and councillor' of John Duke of Bedford, the regent,'1 who granted him the keepership of the castle of Prudhoe in Northumberland and made him one of his * Later he was appointed captain of ihe castle and town of Caen in ' He had estates in Norfolk and Hertfordshire, and acted several times as , com- missioner, &c.,for the latter According to a contemporary account the purchase of the manor of Rye cost X'-100 '< ttlc building of the inner court with brick and of the rooms and in closure {clauitrum) cost 11,000 marks, whilst the granary and storehouse with 16 horses and 30 cows were worth 2,000 marks. It also relates that whilst in England Ogard had a chapel in his house with priests, clerks, and. Stanstead Bu«y from the No»th-west tion
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