The drawing-room is still kept as in those days; the blue damask on the walls has been changed by time to a brown.

The rooms are spacious and lofty, the chimney-pieces of richly carved marble.

The ceiling of one room has fine bas-relief allegorical figures.
"Books of antiquarian value are all around--one whole floor is covered with them.

They are almost never opened.

In some of the rooms paintings are on the walls above the doors.
"Dr.Lee's modern additions are mostly paintings of himself and a former wife, and are in very bad taste.