by the use of diagonal struts forming lozenges within lozenges with none of the concave cusped lozenges and other elaborate designs to be found except for the quatrefoils in the porch. In Staffordshire one can cite Broughton Hall of 1637, the most spectacular black-and-white building in the county, made even more so in 1926-39 when the size was doubled. However, more delightful is Hall o’Wood, Balterley.
In the South-East and East large timber-framed houses are also to be found, although none compares in size with those in and around the North-West. Many, such as Crowhurst Place, Surrey, of about 1725 and the slightly later old Surrey Hall, near Lingfield, owe much of their present size and appearance to later ‘restoration’, in these cases by George Crawley between 1918 and 1922. In Sussex one can cite Horselunge Manor, Hellingly, one of the most spectacular houses in the county, due to some extent to Walter Godfrey who in 1925 transformed the house as near as possible to the original built early in the sixteenth century, and Great Dixter, which Lutyens enlarged in 1910 with a complete timber-framed building from Benenden.
Gatehouses
Houses built around the gate of many castles and manor houses were originally a defensive feature of some importance. Later, though no longer used for defensive purposes, many manor houses, farms and moated sites retained these gatehouses in a modified form until the beginning of the seventeenth century. Many of these later gatehouses
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