SE view of the Jacobean hall and 14th c. tower before demolition of the hall from the 1762 survey.
'...the survey of 1762 describes it as "a large Pile of Brick Building in a Square with a court in ye middle and a stone castle adjoining thereto all encompassed with a moat of water, and being built about 400 years, is now almost in ruins, therefore should be taken down and a new Farm House built"' (Nares, 'Doddington -- I' 346).
SE view of the Jacobean hall and 14th c. tower before demolition of the hall from the 1762 survey.
'...the survey of 1762 describes it as "a large Pile of Brick Building in a Square with a court in ye middle and a stone castle adjoining thereto all encompassed with a moat of water, and being built about 400 years, is now almost in ruins, therefore should be taken down and a new Farm House built"' (Nares, 'Doddington -- I' 346).