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Name: Crested fireback (male)
Scientific: Lophura ignita
Malay: Ayam Pegar / Ayam Pegar Mata Biru / Bornean Crested Fireback / Burung Pegar
Family: Phasianidae
IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2020): Vulnerable
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The clock is on Donegal House.
Guildhall on the left, Donegal House on the right.
The Guildhall in Lichfield has been part of Lichfield's City government for 600 years. In forme times it had been a meeting place of the Corporation, but also at various times a court, a prison, police station, theatre and fire station.
The Guildhall takes its name from the ancient Guild of St Mary and St John the Baptist. The first Guildhall may have been on this site in 1387, when Richard II had confirmed the incorporation of the Guild, even though it had existed for many years.
The old prison had existed round the back since 1553.
Major rebuilding took place in 1707 and 1741, but the building was so ruinous it could of fell down.
By 1844 the Conduit Lands Trust promised to put the Guildhall right "once and for all".
In 1846 a gothic frontage was built, with the stained glass window transfered from Lichfield Cathedral in 1891.
These day the Guildhall is used for civic events and Council meetings.
LICHFIELD
SK1109SE BORE STREET
1094-1/8/62 (South East side)
06/03/70 The Guildhall
GV II
Guildhall. Parts probably C16 or C17 but extensively rebuilt
c1707 and extended to rear 1742; early C19 alterations; hall
rebuilt 1846-8, by Joseph Potter Jnr of Lichfield. Brick with
ashlar facade; brick rear wing; tile roofs. Right-angle plan
with earlier rear wing.
EXTERIOR: Hall in Gothic style: 2 storeys. Offset plinth,
cornice over ground floor; 1st floor offset buttresses and
sill course, coped gable. 2 pointed-arch entrances, that to
left has triple-chamfered continuous moulding and hood to
heavy door with strap hinges; that to right has hood and
paired half-glazed doors with studs and strap hinges. 1st
floor window has 5-light plate tracery with hood and relief
flower motifs, plain blind roundel above. Stair wing to left
has offset ground floor and coped parapet; 1st floor has
2-light single-chamfered plate tracery window. Plaque below
window commemorates Coronation of Edward VII and Alexandra and
is flanked by their busts. Returns have 2-light 1st floor
windows with ashlar plate tracery.
Rear wing of various dates, part to rear with rubble base and
early brickwork over, incorporating blocked C16 window of 3
triangular-headed lights with brick mullions; C18 and C19
brickwork above; varied fenestration; left return has 3 sashed
windows to 1st floor.
INTERIOR: Passage with iron grille with gate and cells to
left; hall has hammerbeam roof and panelling; arch to south
has glazed infill over trefoil-headed arcading and benches
used by quarter sessions; fireplace has segmental-pointed arch
and C16 cast-iron fireback with Royal arms; 1811 stained glass
to north window taken from north transept of Cathedral in
1891, figures of founders and patrons of the Cathedral and
1891 figure of Queen Victoria. Rear staircase has simple
turned balusters, square newels and moulded handrail.
c1710 cells to rear range have barrel vaults, segmental-headed
entrances with original doors and shuttered and barred
windows, benches and latrines; outer entrance and mullioned
window now in later infill wing.
HISTORY: The hall was used by the Guild of St Mary and St John
the Baptist until its dissolution, and by the Corporation from
1548.
Listing NGR: SK1179609481
This is a Georgian Town House on Bore Street in Lichfield calld Donegal House. It is Grade II* listed. It is sandwiched between Lichfield's Guildhall and the Tudor Cafe. It was built for local merchant James Robinson in 1730.
The Tudor Cafe is a beautiful example of Tudor architecture, built in 1510 (at the beginning of the 16th century). If you visit the house on Bore Street in Lichfield today, you will visit the Tudor Cafe and Restaurant.
It was originally called Lichfield House, now it is Tudor of Lichfield. It was built when Henry VIII came to the throne, a year before.
LICHFIELD
SK1109SE BORE STREET
1094-1/8/61 (South East side)
05/02/52 Donegal House (Tourist Information
Centre) and attached railings
GV II*
House, now council offices. 1730. Possibly by Francis Smith of
Warwick. For James Robinson.
Brick with stucco and ashlar dressings; parapeted roof with
brick stacks.
Double-depth plan. Early Georgian style.
3 storeys with basement; symmetrical 5-window range. Plaster
plinth with ground floor sill band; end Doric pilasters with
triglyph entablature blocks; top cornice and stone-coped brick
parapet with plaster terminals and 5 sections which brake
forward over windows.
Entrance has aedicule with attached Doric columns, entablature
and segmental pediment, and 8-fielded-panel (2 glazed) door up
steps with plain iron handrails. basement has segmental-headed
windows with keys; other windows have shaped lintels with
keys, those to ground floor over 6/9-pane sashes, those to
upper floors with sills and aprons, 6/9-pane sashes to 1st
floor, segmental-headed windows with 12-pane sashes to 2nd
floor; central 1st floor window has eared and shouldered
architrave with triglyph 'key', frieze and pediment, window
above has similar architrave with shaped top and key. Iron
area railings to left have decorative heads; 1928 clock on
enriched brackets to left.
Rear has cogged brick frieze with datestone just below; varied
fenestration, ground floor has pegged cross casement, some
6/9-pane sashes and round-headed stair window with small-paned
sash.
INTERIOR: inaccessible due to refurbishment (1990), but has
open-well staircase with slender turned balusters; panelled
rooms and window shutters.
The house was used by the Marquess and Earl of Donegal, who
lived at Fisherwick Hall from 1761 until his death in 1799. In
1910 the house was bought to serve as an extension to the
Guildhall.
(Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Greenslade M W:
Lichfield: Oxford: 1990-: P.43, 83, 242-3; Buildings of
England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: P.194).
Listing NGR: SK1177609485
Taman Negara National Park, Peninsula Malaysia, Malaysia. Female.
NEAR THREATENED
See the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species listing here: www.iucnredlist.org/species/22727445/94949227
4 kinds of Pheasants in a few hours at Phu Luang
Wildlife Sanctuary. 2017.07.23
Red Junglefowl 4, Silver Pheasant 3, Green peafowl 4, Siamese Fireback 7
Siamese Fireback along Kajo Kaew road, Khao Yai National Park, Thailand, 130216. Lophura diardi. Galliformes: Phasianidae.
Location: Peninsular Malaysia
Range: Endemic to Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra only.
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered.
Information: A rare, compact pheasant of damp tropical lowland rainforest, especially peat swamp forest. Dark overall with bright red facial skin and a cocked, vertically-flattened tail. Males have fine vermiculations on the wings, deep orange (fire)back, purple rump and pale orange tail. Females are dark blue all over. Exceedingly shy, typically moving in pairs or small groups. Female is similar to Salvadori’s Pheasant male but the 2 species do not normally co-occur and the latter has often has its tail pointing downwards. Gives a relatively high-pitch “chick!” followed by a low “takrow”.
Source: eBird
For a more detailed description of PhuKieo wildlife sanctuary visit my blog here: www.birdsthatfart.com/1/post/2013/08/phukhieo-wildlife-sa...
Maker: A.A.E. Disderi (1819-1889)
Born: France
Active: France
Medium: albumen print from wet plate collodion negative
Size: 2.25" x 4"
Location: France
Object No. 2022.176a
Shelf: E-19
Publication:
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Provenance: idlejake
Rank: 35
Notes: William Alexander Archibald Hamilton, 11th Duke of Hamilton and 8th Duke of Brandon (19 February 1811 – 8 July 1863) styled Earl of Angus before 1819 and Marquess of Douglas and Clydesdale between 1819 and 1852, was a Scottish nobleman and the Premier Peer of Scotland. He was the son of Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton and Susan Euphemia Beckford, daughter of English novelist William Beckford. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. He was Knight Marischal of Scotland from 1846 and Lord Lieutenant of Lanarkshire from 1852 until his death. Though he had married in 1843, the duke did not succeed to his title until 1852. In that year, he purchased the house located at 22 Arlington Street in St. James's, a district of the City of Westminster in central London from Henry Somerset, 7th Duke of Beaufort for £60,000. The duke lavished expenses on the house for approximately a decade, including installing iron firebacks with his coronet and motto. Upon his death, the house passed to his widow who sold it to Ivor Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne via auction in 1867.
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Down in the basement of Newark House, next to the kitchen, was the servants social room in which this Tudor fireplace is set into a 6 feet thick wall with its arch firmly stapled to hold it in position; the fireback is dated 1634.
The floor is of the original flagstones from when the house was first built. To the left of the fireplace is a door opening to the steps leading down into the cellar, where there is the well which supplied the water for the house.
Pheasants are birds of several genera within the family Phasianidae in the order Galliformes. Although they can be found all over the world in introduced (and captive) populations, the pheasant genera native range is restricted to Eurasia. The classification "pheasant" is paraphyletic, as birds referred to as pheasants are included within both the subfamilies Phasianinae and Pavoninae, and in many cases are more closely related to smaller phasianids, grouse, and turkey (formerly classified in Perdicinae, Tetraoninae, and Meleagridinae) than to other pheasants.
Pheasants are characterised by strong sexual dimorphism, males being highly decorated with bright colours and adornments such as wattles. Males are usually larger than females and have longer tails. Males play no part in rearing the young.
A pheasant's call or cry can be recognised due to the fact it sounds like a rusty sink or valve being turned.
Pheasants eat mostly seeds, grains, roots, and berries, while in the summer they take advantage of insects, fresh green shoots, spiders, earthworms, and snails. However, as an introduced species, in the UK they are a threat to endangered native adders.
The best-known is the common pheasant, which is widespread throughout the world, in introduced feral populations and in farm operations. Various other pheasant species are popular in aviaries, such as the golden pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus).
Etymology
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word "pheasant" ultimately comes from Phasis, the ancient name of what is now called the Rioni River in Georgia. It passed from Greek to Latin to French (spelled with an initial "f") then to English, appearing for the first time in English around 1299.
Species in taxonomic order
This list is ordered to show presumed relationships between species.
Subfamily Phasianinae
Tribe Ithaginini
Blood pheasant (genus Ithaginis)
Blood pheasant (I. cruentus)
Tribe Pucrasiini
Koklass (genus Pucrasia)
Koklass pheasant (P. macrolopha)
Tribe Phasianini
Long-tailed pheasants (genus Syrmaticus)
Reeves's pheasant (S. reevesi)
Elliot's pheasant (S. ellioti)
Mrs. Hume's pheasant (S. humiae)
Mikado pheasant (S. mikado)
Copper pheasant (S. soemmerringi)
Ruffed pheasants (genus Chrysolophus)
Golden pheasant (C. pictus)
Lady Amherst's pheasant (C. amherstiae)
Typical pheasants (genus Phasianus)
Green pheasant (P. versicolor)
Common pheasant (P. colchicus)
Caucasus pheasants, Phasianus colchicus colchicus group
White-winged pheasants, Phasianus colchicus chrysomelas/principalis group
Prince of Wales pheasant, Phasianus colchicus principalis
Mongolian ring-necked pheasants or white-winged ring-necked pheasants, Phasianus colchicus mongolicus group
Tarim pheasants, Phasianus colchicus tarimensis group
Chinese ring-necked pheasants, Phasianus colchicus torquatus group
Taiwan pheasant, Phasianus colchicus formosanus
Cheer pheasant (genus Catreus)
Cheer pheasant (C. wallichi)
Gallopheasants (genus Lophura)
Kalij pheasant (L. leucomelanos)
White-crested kalij pheasant (L. l. hamiltoni)
Nepal kalij pheasant (L. l. leucomelanos)
Black-backed kalij pheasant (L. l. melanota)
Black kalij pheasant (L. l. moffitti)
Black-breasted kalij pheasant (L. l. lathami)
William's kalij pheasant (L. l. williamsi)
Oates' kalij pheasant (L. l. oatesi)
Crawfurd's kalij pheasant (L. l. crawfurdi)
Lineated kalij pheasant (L. l. lineata)
Silver pheasant (L. nycthemera)
Imperial pheasant (L. imperialis)
Edwards's pheasant (L. edwardsi)
Vietnamese pheasant (L. hatinhensis)
Swinhoe's pheasant (L. swinhoii)
Salvadori's pheasant (L. inornata)
Hoogerwerf's pheasant (L. i. hoogerwerfi)
Malayan crestless fireback (L. erythrophthalma)
Bornean crestless fireback (L. pyronota)
Bornean crested fireback (L. ignita)
Lesser Bornean crested fireback (L. i. ignita)
Greater Bornean crested fireback (L. i. nobilis)
Malayan crested fireback (L. rufa)
Siamese fireback (L. diardi)
Bulwer's pheasant (L. bulweri)
Eared pheasants (genus Crossoptilon)
White eared pheasant (C. crossoptilon)
Tibetan eared pheasant (C. harmani)
Brown eared pheasant (C. mantchuricum)
Blue eared pheasant (C. auritum)
Subfamily Pavoninae
Tribe Pavonini
Crested argus (genus Rheinardia)
Vietnamese crested argus (R. ocellata)
Malayan crested argus (R. nigrescens)
Great argus (genus Argusianus)
Great argus (A. argus)
Tribe Polyprectronini
Peacock-pheasants (genus Polyplectron)
Bronze-tailed peacock-pheasant (P. chalcurum)
Mountain peacock-pheasant (P. inopinatum)
Germain's peacock-pheasant (P. germaini)
Grey peacock-pheasant (P. bicalcaratum
Hainan peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron katsumatae)
Malayan peacock-pheasant (P. malacense)
Bornean peacock-pheasant (P. schleiermacheri)
Palawan peacock-pheasant (P. emphanum)
Malayan Crested Fireback - Lophura rufa
Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)
Taman Negara National Park, Pahang, Malaysia, 10\25\2023
Spent a lovely afternoon with my WFC friends ~ beautiful location, gorgeous weather and fabulous company as always.. thanks to everyone for a wonderful day :-) xx **so thrilled that this photo was chosen as Picture of the Week in the Wales on Sunday (8th Dec 2013) ~ a first for me ! :-)
St Fagans Castle is a Grade 1 listed building and one of the finest Elizabethan manor houses in Wales, though much of the interior was remodelled during the 19th century. In 1946 the Castle, together with eighteen acres of land, was donated by the Earl of Plymouth to the National Museum of Wales as a site for a national open-air museum.
The present house was begun by a local lawyer, Dr John Gibbon, in 1580, though he may never have actually lived here. The house and estate were purchased in 1616 by Edward Lewis of Y Fan, Caerphilly, and it was Edward and his wife Blanche who completed many of the internal fittings of the building in 1620. Their initials EBL and the date 1620 can be seen on panelling and on firebacks within the building. The Lewis heiress Elizabeth married Other, 3rd Earl of Plymouth in 1730, and the estate was inherited by their infant son in 1736.
The house was rented out to various tenants during the 18th century, and was later used for temporary accommodation by local people, including the local schoolmaster, who kept school in the withdrawing room.
In 1850 a huge refurbishing scheme was begun to provide a home for the heir to the Plymouth estate, Robert Windsor-Clive, and his new bride. They married in 1852 but lived in St Fagans for a short time only, until his early death. It was not until later in the century that St Fagans was to see a family living within its walls. From the mid-1880s Lord Robert Windsor, later to be Earl of Plymouth, spent part of every summer at St Fagans with his wife, three sons and daughter, and their many guests. The rooms are furnished to reflect the lives of the family in residence at the beginning of the 20th century.
Name: Crested fireback (male)
Scientific: Lophura ignita
Malay: Ayam Pegar / Ayam Pegar Mata Biru / Bornean Crested Fireback / Burung Pegar
Family: Phasianidae
IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2020): Vulnerable
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(lophura diardi) The Siamese Fireback is distributed to the lowland and evergreen forests of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam in Southeast Asia. This species is also designated as the national bird of Thailand.
(lophura diardi) The Siamese Fireback is distributed to the lowland and evergreen forests of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam in Southeast Asia. This species is also designated as the national bird of Thailand.
The exterior of Dyffryn House at Dyffryn Gardens.
It is in Dyffryn in the Vale of Glamorgan. Not too far from Cardiff. The gardens are owned by the National Trust. There is also a house on the site, that is undergoing refurbishment, it opens at midday (the parts that are open though).
Dyffryn House was first home to Admiral Sir Thomas Button in the 16th century. Then in the 18th century the Pryce family took ownership. The last family to live in the house was the Cory family from the late 19th century.
Bought by John Cory the house you see today is mostly his remodelling. John's only daughter Florence was the last of the family to live here, passing away in 1937.
The estate was bought by Sir Cennydd Traherne, a local land lower. This is when it began it's life as a training centre and then a conference centre.
The conference centre closed in 1998. For a brief period the house as due to become a hotel. Much of the damage was caused by this plan.
In 2013, 17 years after doors closed, the National Trust has reopened the house to keep the story going.
The house is Grade II* listed.
Location
Set within the large public grounds of Dyffryn Gardens; 2km to south of St Nicholas.
History
Built 1891-3 for John Cory, the well known local industrialist and philanthropist; the architects are said to be Habershon and Fawckner of Newport. There had been an Elizabethan house on the site, successively owned by the Button and Pryce Families. Dyffryn is principally renowned for its gardens, which were laid out for Reginald Cory (John's son) by Thomas Mawson, the internationally known and prolific garden designer; work began in 1904-5. After Cory's death Dyffryn was sold in 1937 and purchased by Sir Cennydd Traherne who leased the property to the County Council. Some internal alterations were carried out in conversion to a conference centre.
Interior
Lavish interiors the main rooms of which are designed in a wide variety of styles in a manner often favoured by wealthy C19 owners. Some of the chimneypieces are said to have been brought from other houses. The single most important room is the Great Hall which echoes those of major C16 country houses (eg Hampton Court and Burghley) with its full height, mock hammerbeam roof and large end window. The walls are enriched with two tiers of pilasters carrying friezes, a dentilled cornice to top and corbelled round arches with gilded keystones below over a panelled dado. 5-bay implied double-hammerbeam roof which is herringbone-boarded. Grand timber chimneypiece with massive cornice carried by full height terms; stone fireplace surround and overmantel with Ionic columns flanking coat of arms. Enormous window to N end with coloured glass depicting Queen Elizabeth I; round-arched doorway below with double doors and marble columns. Splayed dais recess to W wall with coffered ceiling. At S end the minstrels gallery is carried on curved brackets and spans an open passage leading from the staircase hall giving access to the Great Hall and neighbouring rooms, the doorways to which are surmounted by large plaster relief 'tondi'. To the E of the Great Hall is the Billiard Room which has a dado, with integral bench seating, below a deep band of carved panelling in an exceptionally florid Renaissance manner; similar frieze and chimneypiece and a deeply panelled ceiling with ceiling bosses. The Orchid room to S has painted ceiling, Ionic columns and gilded surrounds to wall panelling. Immediately next door is the Rose Room which is in a broadly C18 French style (see especially the delicately painted ceiling with corner roundels and the gilded festoons to the beaded surrounds of the wall panelling). The fine marble chimneypiece however is more ca.1600 in style with tapered figural pilasters, Smythson-like bosses and strapwork surrounding an equestrian figure with a French inscription: "Dieu Benit La Zouche de Courson". To the W is the Tulip Room (now Dining room) with ribbed ceiling including Gothic foliate bosses; bowed W end backs onto the Bar while the N wall backs onto the wainscotted Staircase Hall which at its E end has wall-arcading in a similar manner to that of the Great Hall. Broad stairs with long flights; shaped tread ends and panelled newels with finials. 1st floor landing has paired marble columns and beyond that the stairs continue in a similar manner to 2nd floor. The Oak room opens off the Staircase Hall. This was formerly the dining room and has a panelled ceiling, wainscotting and mullioned and transomed windows all in a Tudor/Elizabethan manner; similar style inglenook-like fireplace with oval smoke window. The two remaining public rooms to W are the Bar and Lounge for the conference centre. The former has lightly ribbed ceiling but luxuriantly foliage encrusted marble chimneypiece in an C18 manner and reuses a remarkable French style 7-double branch chandelier; modern panelling. The lounge has unusual plaster ceiling with broad ribs and thistle, rose and daffodil ornament to square, diamond and lozenge shaped panels. Fine French chateau style marble chimneypiece with putti flanking round-arched fireplace containing Fleur-de-lis fireback.
Exterior
Eclectic design derived from the French Renaissance and English Baroque styles, the former is particularly seen in the Mansard roof and some of the window treatment and the latter in the Great Hall block to the main facade. 2 storeys and attic; rendered elevations with freestone dressings. Hipped mansard slate roof with balustraded parapet over the main cornice; stone chimney stacks with bracketed cornices. The main front to N is dominated by the tall, square Hall block that projects to left of centre; this has balustraded parapet with urns and a pedimented front over a giant, 5-light, round-arched window enriched with keyblocked ornament. The symmetrical part of the design is that there are 3 storey 'towers' to centre and ends. Ground floor is advanced to right of the hall block with similar parapet and urns. Includes two, 5-light, bay windows, with similar glazing to that of the hall; between these is a similar 3-light window beside the present, round-arched, main entrance with spandrel ornament. In front of the hall block is a projecting lobby/porch and a porte-cochere onto the Carriage Court; this has paired Doric columns and a rusticated entrance surround. Glazing is mostly of horned sash type; the attic windows to the pedimented dormers are round-headed in a French manner; some heavily keystoned casement windows to ground floor left with voluted architraves. To right stone wall screens modernised part and the rear of the stable courtyard. 5-window left hand (E) side including shallow splayed bay. Symmetrical 13-bay garden front to S including projecting end 'towers' and broader projecting central bay, which is pedimented in a similar manner to that of the hall block; includes tripartite to 2nd floor and bay window below. The 'towers' have niches containing statues to ground floor. Midway between central and end bays are 2-storey splayed bays; these are linked to the central classical veranda which has paired Doric columns and balustraded parapet with ball finials. Modern extension to W and beyond that is the converted former stable courtyard with pyramidal clock-tower to S range, originally the coach-house; semi-circular windows to loft.
Reason for Listing
Graded II* for its exceptional interiors and also for the importance of its setting at the heart of Dyffryn Gardens.
References
Information from Mrs P Moore;
Mawson T (1926) The Art and Craft of Garden Making, 5th ed., p386.
This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.
Notes:
Set within the large public grounds of Dyffryn Gardens; 2km to south of St Nicholas.
Source: Cadw
Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence.
South Front
English:
Crestless Fireback
Czech:
bažant červenolící
German:
Gabelschwanzfasan
Danish:
Topløs Ildryg
Spanish:
Faisán Colicanelo
Finnish:
punaperäfasaani
French:
Faisan à queue rousse
Icelandic:
Crestless Fireback
Italian:
Dorso di fuoco senzacresta
Japanese:
uchiwakiji
Japanese:
ウチワキジ
Dutch:
Vuurrugfazant
Norwegian:
Gulhalefasan
Polish:
kisciec zóltosterny
Portuguese:
Faisão-de-dorso-canela
Portuguese (Brazil):
Crestless Fireback
Russian:
Вилохвостая лофура
Slovak:
bažant červenolíci
Swedish:
släthuvad eldrygg
Chinese:
棕尾火背鹇
The Drewe Arms pub named after the lords of the manor , at the entrance to the church of St Andrew Broadhembury
The rear is also extremely pretty www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/2V20t7ja34
Part of the Broadhembury Estate it of creamwashed rendered cob and stone; The core of the house is a late medieval open hall at the thatched (south-east) end of the main range. The passage and lower end was partly rebuilt in the early /mid 18c with different floor levels possibly following a fire. The higher (left) end retains one massive smoke-blackened jointed cruck truss with a later roof structure above it, the inner room may always have been storeyed, it retains a fine circa early 16c window on the front and was lined with linenfold panelling. The hall was probably floored in the 17c with a stack introduced backing on to the passage and a ceiling of intersecting beams. The rear wing may have been added at the same time, it retains one principal of a curved foot truss which had a mortised collar. The ground floor of the lower end is now the cellar, with steps down from the through passage and 2 C18 rooms on the first floor, one very large with a massive chimney-piece. A straight stair rises against the rear wall of the lower end from the through passage, a second stair rises adjacent to the passage within the higher end. The inner room has been subdivided axially into 2 rooms, and these 2 rooms, with the C17 hall are the public rooms of the public house and have entirely escaped brewery modernization. The only comparable unspoiled public house interior in Devon is the Drewe Arms at Drewsteignton. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4 window front with regular fenestration. The eaves thatch is eyebrowed over the 2 left hand first floor windows, lower roofline to the slated lower end at the right. Probably C16 gabled porch to the through passage at the left of the slated block: the porch has a wide segmental arched outer doorway, a cusped slit window on the right return, slate-topped porch seats, a wide moulded, timber inner doorframe with urn stops, a Tudor arch and a large C17 or C18 plank door. The ground floor window left, lighting the former inner room, is a fine C16 stone mullioned window with a moulded frame and mullions, carved spandrels, saddlebars and stanchions. It is glazed with square leaded panes. To the left of the porch, lighting the hall, a tall 4-light casement with square leaded panes with a smaller similar window above, first floor left is a 3-light C20 timber casement with glazing bars. The right hand block, slightly set back, has deep eaves and 2 first floor early/mid C18 paired 18-pane sashes with thick moulded glazing bars, the right hand window with a moulded frame. A fine, possibly C18 wrought iron inn sign incorporates a probably later lamp and armorial bearings crowned with a lion rampant. A probably C18 ramped ashlar stone wall adjoins the pub at the right enclosing the rear courtyard. Interior: The lower side screen of the through passage is probably C19 with chamfered muntins. The C17 hall has an open fireplace, the fireback re-lined in brick, with a chamfered lintel with mason's mitres. The front part of the room has a ceiling of chamfered intersecting beams. The inner room is divided axially into 2 with a cross beam surviving in the rear room only. A disused hatch survives between the 2 smaller rooms. The front room is plain. The lower end rooms, now with public house cellar, are unheated with chamfered crossbeams. A small section of linenfold panelling survives on the partition wall of the higher end stair. On the first floor, the 2 C18 rooms of the lower end have massive chimney-pieces, the right hand room is very large and must have been used for public functions; the chimney-piece has a broken pediment and carved heads, the smaller room has an Adam style chimney- piece with very large-scale detail. Roof: One medieval side-pegged jointed cruck truss of massive scantling survives over the hall. No access to apex at time of survey but there is evidence of a soot crust on the timbers. The front purlins have been truncated to accommodate the window. The rear wing retains the remains of a curved foot truss of circa mid C17 date. The lower end trusses are X apex and probably C18. In 1888 W.H. Hamilton Rogers visited Broadhembury in the course of researching the biography of Toplady, the author of 'Rock of Ages, who was vicar of Broadhembury 1768-78. He described the Drewe Arms, mentioning "an antiquated gateway to the yard in the rear". He and his companion were "ushered through several large rooms into the special parlour for strangers" - evidently the inner room - where they were refreshed with "a dainty spread and sparkling cider, a huge home-made loaf, and a roll of sweet butter, the whole evidently manufactured on the premises". The inner room is described although it is not clear whether it had been subdivided at this date: "Its dimensions are small, but the walls, from floor to ceiling, are wainscotted with multidudinous panels of oak, carved into the well-known linen pattern so much used during the reigns of the 7th and 8th Henrys, and a rich cornice of boldly-carved masks and allegorical devices runs round the top. A large stone window, consisting of a series of narrow Tudor arched openings, and defended from outside intrusion by iron lattice bars of enormous strength, throws a subdued light into the quaint old apartment." It seems likely that most of the linenfold panelling was re-used in Broadhembury House, (qv) when that building was remodelled by Harbottle Reed sometime between 1903 and 1914. An extremely interesting building, not only for high quality medieval origins but also for the C18 partial rebuilding and its very rare unspoiled pub interior. One of 8 closely-spaced medieval houses in the village.
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4 kinds of Pheasants in a few hours at Phu Luang
Wildlife Sanctuary. 2017.07.23
Red Junglefowl 4, Silver Pheasant 3, Green peafowl 4, Siamese Fireback 7
The Furness Clough Colliery and associated firebrick works was purchased by Richard Knowles in 1905. The mine produced mainly fireclay but also yielded coal for the kilns. The mine closed in 1963 but the works continued into the 1980s. A significant market at the time of my visit was firebacks exported to Saudi Arabia and several of these can be seen in front of the fork lift outside the kiln.
I brightened this one up. I do not like gloomy pics or dark pics.
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