173.—The South Front., from English Homes Vol III no. 1, Late Tudor (1922), added on 29th Feb 2008
February 29, 2008
Benthall Hall, North Shropshire.
There were de Benthalls in 1120, and when, two centuries later, a Burnell of Acton Burnell marred their heiress he took her name as well as her property. Their descendants built the present house in the latter part of the sixteenth century. [...] The general appearance and the details consort exactly with what we should expect in a house built in 1583.
I have included many difference versions of this English manor-house picture, some slightly cropped so that they will work as screen backgrounds.
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