The church, too, is of brick--though the tower
and chancel are of stone. The attorney's house is of brick, which
shall not be more particularly described now as many of the scenes
which these pages will have to describe were acted there; and
almost the entire High Street in the centre of the town was brick
also.
But the most remarkable house in Dillsborough was one standing in a
short thoroughfare called Hobbs Gate, leading down by the side of
the Bush Inn from the market-place to Church Square, as it is
called. As you pass down towards the church this house is on the
right hand, and it occupies with its garden the whole space between
the market-place and Church Square. But though the house enjoys the
privilege of a large garden,--so large that the land being in the
middle of a town would be of great value were it not that
Dillsborough is in its decadence,--still it stands flush up to the
street upon which the front door opens. It has an imposing flight
of stone steps guarded by iron rails leading up to it, and on each
side of the door there is a row of three windows, and on the two
upper stories rows of seven windows. Over the door there is a
covering, on which there are grotesquely-formed, carved wooden
faces; and over the centre of each window, let into the brickwork,
is a carved stone. There are also numerous underground windows,
sunk below the earth and protected by iron railings.
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