the interior, only, have the arched form, and these of an exceedingly flat elevation. The windows are pleasantly disposed, and diminish in width as they ascend. This arrangement of windows seems to have been a canon of architecture in the olden days, and we moderns might do well to follow so pleasing a feature. But the windows, for some reason or other, and though they abound in great numbers in every conceivable position, many being now walled up, are small, much smaller than windows of the same period elsewhere; but, again, they are so placed, with regard to the rooms to which they give light, that the maximum of sunshine is obtained, and with this object in view they are set, as regards their heights, as nearly as possible in the centre of the wall, the sides having a good slope, as illustrated by the "roomy window Fig. 5, taken from a house of the same period at Llantwit Major. The amount of light, as seen during a visit, was singularly ample and pleasant for so small a window. Nevertheless, the windows are small, and their square heads and somewhat characterless mouldings, show clearly the incipient decadence of domestic architecture. Some of the earlier four-centred windows at Llantrithyd, Llantwit, Coity, Trelales, and other places, have far better proportions and mouldings. Of course, the interior of the house is much altered. All the old fire-places are gone, save one or two in the attics. The old wainscotting is gone, but the massive staircase remains, with its three-inch turned balusters and six-inch and seven-inch square newels. The porch is roomy, and has on the inner side its original door. Over the porch is a broken sun-dial, similar to that over the archway of the entrance lodge. The chimneys show that the architect knew, as some |