The palette

Mud bricks with some packed mud and a little dripstone near the ground for the brick walls, polished tuff for the base course and floors, tuff bricks for the plinth; smooth sandstone (blocks, stairs and slabs) for quoins, window frames, string courses and pinnacles, sandstone walls for the mullions; glass panes in the windows and white stained glass in the west gable; dark oak logs, stairs and slabs for the hammer-beam trusses; deepslate tiles and bricks for the slate roofs; stripped spruce, spruce planks and trapdoors for the louvre; a gold block and lightning rods on the tops.

Techniques

• Traceried windows
• Buttresses into pinnacles
• Hammer-beam trusses
• Tudor brick and stone
• A battlemented porch tower

The steps

1. Stone footing
2. Hall and aisle walls up to the window sills
3. Hall walls: the traceried windows rise
4. Three service doors in the west wall
5. Stepped buttresses and their pinnacles
6. Porch tower: the vaulted porch
7. Porch tower: the upper stages
8. Porch tower: corbelled parapet and battlements
9. Hammer-beam trusses inside the hall
10. West gable: the last truss, glazed
11. Purlins and the ridge beam
12. Hall roof of slate
13. Aisle roof
14. The louvre on the ridge
15. Solar wing: two storeys of stone
16. Solar wing: the stone oriel
17. Tall chimney stack
18. Solar wing roof
19. Lanterns at the doors

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