. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. 3o6 10b : 'I hear there is t of old Hunsdon House â ... it will be nearly a purchased by James S. Walker of Hunsdonbury m 1858. Mr. Walker then sold the manor to Mr. Charles Phelips, but the house (in 1861) to Mr James Wyllie, in whose family it remained until 1882, when it was purchased by Mr. Spencer Charrington. It is now the property of the latter's son, Mr. Edmund Knowles Charrington, and ia the residence of his sister Mrs. Montgomerie, The house consists of a large rectangula a low modern wing at the west end containing t
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. 3o6 10b : 'I hear there is t of old Hunsdon House â ... it will be nearly a purchased by James S. Walker of Hunsdonbury m 1858. Mr. Walker then sold the manor to Mr. Charles Phelips, but the house (in 1861) to Mr James Wyllie, in whose family it remained until 1882, when it was purchased by Mr. Spencer Charrington. It is now the property of the latter's son, Mr. Edmund Knowles Charrington, and ia the residence of his sister Mrs. Montgomerie, The house consists of a large rectangula a low modern wing at the west end containing the domestic offices. The house is built of brick with embattled parapet and a flat roof. Judging from the dimensions given by William of Worcester,0" the original building must have been a very extensive structure ; none of these dimensions, however, agree with the present house. After the manor came to the Crown (see below) Henry VIII made considerable addi- tions9"; about 1743 the wings are said to have been pulled down,10 and in 1805 Mr. Nicolson Calvert pulled a great part of the old house down and reconstructed most of what re- 16 April hardly a 1 left standi 1 The oldest parts of the existing house are the cellars under the east end ; they probably date from the 16th. century. The largest cellar, which measures 48 ft. 6 in. by 18 ft. 6 in., runs transversely across the building, and appears to have formed a wing of a former house, as it projects northwards 8 ft. beyond the original north wall, which still remains visible in the basement, the present north wall standing about 9 ft. outside it; the lower part of a small hexagonal turret or closet still remains at the angle of the old walls. The cellar itself has a barrel vault of brick; the walls and vault are constructed of thin bricks. The turret, which has no trace of a stair, is entered by a low doorway with a four-centred arch. The adjoin- tV,'-' ':"'â ing cellars on the west are of the same
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