They are fifteenth century, and have oak verge-boards round their gables, carved in very delicate tracery.

For the horse in stark despair, with his front hoofs poised in air, On the last verge rears amain. "Now he hangs, he rocks between, and his nostrils curdle in!

The house at Hampstead, which no doubt still stands, is of rather pleasing design in quite a stone and rural style, with good breadths of wall-surface, two plain coped gables, mullioned windows, and oversailing slate verge roofs, but, rather spoiling it, a high square three-storied tower at the south-east angle, on the topmost floor of which I had slept the previous night.