East Barsham Manor - Brickwork

Brickwork

The virtuoso brickwork of Tudor mansions bespoke novelty, expense, and fantasy. Counties such as Norfolk, rich in stone, allowed gentlemen like Sir Henry to not only have "a brick gatehouse, ribbed, turreted and emblazoned with his coat of arms, but a grand exuberance of chimneys, clustered together in double banks of five, each individual stack to a different design."

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