The formal landscape around the house was laid out during the 18th century, and augmented in the 19th century with Gothic ornaments, such as the beach cobble finials of the gates to the south-west of the house.
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There is a marble-bordered swimming pool, an office stuffed with gilt-edged relics of Frank W . Woolworth's reign, a subterranean storeroom called the bone yard, where hundreds of Gothic ornaments are stockpiled in case they are needed as replacements on the exterior.
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Smith's designs are not Gothic at all; they simply show furniture of current fashionable forms with the addition of Gothic ornament-pierced quatrefoils, crockets, pinnacles, pointed arches, etc . copied from medieval buildings The work was published as a complete volume in boards sometime in 1807 for ? 14s 6d or as here elegantly coloured at ? 17s 6d.
