Wall

This was probably the back door or possibly a window, to the kitchen of the original 1760 house.

The 'random rubble' used to build was taken from the fields around the site but also one that was once part of a chimney elsewhere. The large pale block lying above the old lintel had always puzzled, with its square cut and curved 'hook' on the bottom RH corner so i asked a stonemason when he came to quote for a repair job.

He loved the details of the house, had quite a bit to say about maintenance, but was sufficiently impressed by the quality of the original lime mortaring on a front wall to take a photo of a segment where he spotted what he said was an unusually large piece of uncrushed white limestone. When he told me the masons would have been grinding chunks of the stone to the powder they needed, i was astonished there aren't more.