. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE arch I 3 ft. " ide, which practically increases the length of the room to 36 ft. From the north-west corner a mutilated spiral stone staircase leads to the upper floors, and at the south end of the screens the old doorvav still remains, retaining it5 original oak nail- ^tuJded door. The screen itself, however, and the front of the gallery were removed about 1901," though the old gallerj- floor remains and modern panelling and a balustrade have been erected altogether out of keeping with the r
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE arch I 3 ft. " ide, which practically increases the length of the room to 36 ft. From the north-west corner a mutilated spiral stone staircase leads to the upper floors, and at the south end of the screens the old doorvav still remains, retaining it5 original oak nail- ^tuJded door. The screen itself, however, and the front of the gallery were removed about 1901," though the old gallerj- floor remains and modern panelling and a balustrade have been erected altogether out of keeping with the rest of the room. The hall, how- ever, retains some of its ancient features. It is lit on the south side by a long muUioned and transomed window often lights and there is a two-light window to the ingle-nook and one of four lights high up in the north-east comer above the gallery. The floor is flagged, and the roof, which is I 2 ft. 8 in. high to the undenide of the beams, is the original flat one of oak, with two chamfered beams forming three bays and divided by intermediate pieces into eight panels. The high table dated 1613 and with the initials \V. B., S. B. formerly stood under the window on the south side but is now at Towneley Hall. The porch has on the outside over the square-headed doonvay the name of William Barcroft and the date 1614, but this inscription appears to belong to an alteration in the original plan whereby a square bay window- on the north side was altered to its present purpose, at the time probably \vhen the doorway at the north end of the passage was built up. The porch door- u,T\-, which has classic detail and a moulded string immediately above the inscription, is manifestly an insertion in an older wall, the wider hood mould of the previously existing window being still in posi- tion above. On the inside the opening to the bay is filled in ^^ith a modern glazed screen forming an inner doorway. The rooms in the west wing are almost entirely moder
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