newcome-pile

Updated: May 10, 2025

Would we be lords of such a place under the penalty of living in it? We agreed that the little angle of earth called Fairoaks was dearer to us than the clumsy Newcome-pile of Tudor masonry. The house had been fitted up in the time of George IV. and the quasi-Gothic revival.

William Makepeace Thackeray - The Newcomes : Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family