. Lutyens houses and gardens . faithfulness the work of their is, therefore, the more interesting to examine the success-ful way in which Sir Edwin repaired the broken architecturalfortunes of Great Dixter. The hall may be attributed with reasonable certainty tosome year between 1440 and 1454. It is a noble apartment,and runs up three storeys in height. It measures forty feetby twenty-five feet—about double the size of the hall ofa yeomans house—and the construction is particularlyinteresting. When the hall was built there was an openhearth on the floor from which the smoke found i
. Lutyens houses and gardens . faithfulness the work of their is, therefore, the more interesting to examine the success-ful way in which Sir Edwin repaired the broken architecturalfortunes of Great Dixter. The hall may be attributed with reasonable certainty tosome year between 1440 and 1454. It is a noble apartment,and runs up three storeys in height. It measures forty feetby twenty-five feet—about double the size of the hall ofa yeomans house—and the construction is particularlyinteresting. When the hall was built there was an openhearth on the floor from which the smoke found its wayout by the windows or through chinks in the roof, or by alouvre, just as it did in the notable case of Penshurst. Theroof timbers show by their blackened surfaces the incon-venience that fifteenth-century folk were ready to the upper or west end of the hall there was a dais, aboutfifteen inches above the general level, on which stood thedining-table for the owner and his family. The apart- Great Dixter 171. y. 172 A Notable Work of Repair
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