. Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county. s built at the southern end of the hall. This wasprobably in Henry reign, and it is quite likelythat the stonework, with its delicately tooled surface,was brought from the then lately - destroyed PrioryChurch of Shulebrede. i The original plan probably consisted of this centralopen hall, with a double-storied wing at each end (likean E, with the tongue left out), or it may have had atwo-storied wing at the southern or northern end only,making an L-shape. This hall would thus have been•about 28 fee
. Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county. s built at the southern end of the hall. This wasprobably in Henry reign, and it is quite likelythat the stonework, with its delicately tooled surface,was brought from the then lately - destroyed PrioryChurch of Shulebrede. i The original plan probably consisted of this centralopen hall, with a double-storied wing at each end (likean E, with the tongue left out), or it may have had atwo-storied wing at the southern or northern end only,making an L-shape. This hall would thus have been•about 28 feet long, by its present width of 16-ft. in the sixteenth century, when the great stonefireplace was erected at the southern end of the hall, anupper story was formed by the insertion of the present;floor in what had been the open hall. Towards the closebf the sixteenth century some person of importance seemsto have still further enlarged the house by the additionof a wing, more than equal to the original area, on the!south side, providing two handsome parlours and a LIV. D.
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