close-paned

Updated: June 8, 2025

On either hand, houses built of a marvellous red stone or marble, which seemed still to hold and radiate the tempestuous light which had but just faded from them; the houses of a small provincial aristocracy, immemorially old like the families which still possessed them; close-paned, rough-hewn, and poor yet showing here and there a doorway, a balcony, a shrine, touched with divine beauty.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - The Testing of Diana Mallory