. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE on the north the upper story has a moulded sill with a twisteJ ornament and is carried on carved brackets. On the upper floor of the north front, on each side of two modern oriel windows, is a row of small lights with moulded oak frames and mullions. On the east there are also two small blocked windows with oak mullions. The house contains some 17th-century panelling. The Star Inn in the same street is a 17th-century house of timber and plaster, much re- stored. There is a carved under the ea
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE on the north the upper story has a moulded sill with a twisteJ ornament and is carried on carved brackets. On the upper floor of the north front, on each side of two modern oriel windows, is a row of small lights with moulded oak frames and mullions. On the east there are also two small blocked windows with oak mullions. The house contains some 17th-century panelling. The Star Inn in the same street is a 17th-century house of timber and plaster, much re- stored. There is a carved under the eaves. Besides the inns there are a number of interesting old houses in the town, principally of the 17th century. St. Joseph's, formerly Wind Hill House, west of the church, is an early 17th-century L-shaped house of two stories and attics. It was apparently encased in the 18th century with brick walls, and was much died without issue in 1866. Hi) brother Thomas succeeded, and on his death the house descended to Mr. Frederick Wilby (lord of Piggoto Manor, ). In 1903 it was acquired by the Provincial of the Redemptorist order for the Redemptorist Fathers, who since May 1900 had occupied a small house in the Portland Road, to which an iron church was attached. A church dedicated in honour of St. Joseph and the English Martyrs was built on the site of the stables of Wind Hill House, and opened by Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, in 1906. One of the stained glass windows has fragments of old glass said to have come out of St. Michael's Church. Previous to the arrival of the Redemptorist Fathers in the parish a small house of Belgian nuns (Sceurs de Ste. Marie) had been established in the Grange. Tai White Horse Ini altered in the following century. It contains a 1 "th-cemun* heavy oak staircase, with moulded hand- rail, carved balustrade and panelled and moulded newels. The entrance hall on the east of the stair- case was formerly part of the large hall and has
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