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A History of the County of Middlesex
… writer, was the son of a London furrier who lived also at Ivy House. The Quaker poet Bernard Barton (1784-1849), spent …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… English style, and is known as St. Maxentius'. 24 The ivy-grown tower of the old building of 16th or 17th century …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… arms of Barton and initials T.B.; and (6) clawed foot and ivy leaf. 57 The chancel is a good example of modern Gothic …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… century relieved from absolute dulness by a covering of ivy on its principal elevation. The roofs are of flat pitch …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… century, 24 and fifty years later it is described as an ivy-covered ruin. About 1815 it was patched up into a … modern insertions, but the large cylindrical chimneys, the ivy-covered walls and its position adjoining the lake give it … whole of the south front, is now thickly overgrown with ivy. The hall is said formerly to have contained wood …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… remains substantially as when erected, and its grey stone ivy-covered walls and stone slated roofs and gables make a …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… red, and the greater part of the front being covered with ivy the colour effect is very good. The windows are glazed …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… garden. The greater part of the front is covered with ivy, which gives the house a very picturesque appearance. The …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… stone roofs, in a setting of foliage and relieved with ivy. The many well-designed brick chimneys, mostly with …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… but that on the south is now completely covered over with ivy and can only be seen from within. There are also two … is now completely covered up with a thick growth of ivy. There was formerly some coloured glass in the windows …