Normanhurst, Sussex, England. French-chateau style house built by the Lucas Brothers in 1870 for railway baron Thomas Brassey. Colour woodblock by Benjamin Fawcett in the Baxter process of an illustration by Alexander Francis Lydon from Reverend Francis Orpen Morris’s Picturesque Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, William Mackenzie, London, 1880.

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