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 and Sentiments. 129 caroufing in the room on the firfl-iloor. Yet ftill the vauUed room on the ground-floor was perhaps more often confidered as the pubUc apart- ment. In this manner the two apartments of the houfe, inftead of ftanding fide by fide, were railed one upon the other, and formed exter- nally a fquare mafs of mafonry. Several examples of early manor-houfes of this defcription fi:ill remain, among which one of the moft remarkable is that at Millichope in Shroplliire, which evidently belongs to the latter half of the twelfth century. It has not been noticed in any work on domeftic archite6hire, but I am enabled to defcribe it from two private No. 85. Ancient Manor-Houfe, Millichope, Shropshire. lithographed plates by Mrs. Stackhoufe Atton, of A6lon Scott, from which the accompanying cuts are taken. The firft (No. 85) reprefents the prefent outward appearance of the ancient building, which is now an adjun6t to a farm-houfe. The plan is a re6langle, confiderably longer from north to fouth than in the tranfverfe direcStion. The walls are immenfely thick on the ground-floor in comparifon to the fize of the building, as will be feen from the plan of the ground-floor given in the next cut (No. 86). The original entrance was at I, by a late Norman arch, flightly ornamented, which is feen in the view. To the right of this is feen one of the s original