Downton Hall, Shropshire, England. The house was built in 1733 by lawyer Wredenhall Pearce,, designed by William Smith Jr., and has a twelve-bay frontage and balustraded parapet. In 1824, a new entrance with Doric-style portico was added by architect Edward Haycock. Colour woodblock by Benjamin Fawcett in the Baxter process of an illustration by Alexander Francis Lydon from Reverend Francis Orpen Morris’s A Series of Picturesque Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, William Mackenzie, London, 1880.

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