cross-hooks

Updated: May 10, 2025

The wide stone gateway, with its oaken doors barred within by massive cross-hooks that could have withstood a siege; the courtyard, flanked by the house and its rambling appendages that contained within their cavernous interiors the cider-press and cellars; the stable with its long stone manger, and next it the carved wooden bunk for the groom of two centuries ago; the stone pig-sty; the tile-roofed sheds all had about them the charm of dignified decay.

F. Berkeley (Frank Berkeley) Smith - A Village of Vagabonds