For the house was characteristic of the man and the man was not of a common type.
There was nothing small or mean about John's house.

The hill on which it stood was the highest ground on the Hatton Manor.

It commanded a wide vista of meadows, interspersed with peacefully flowing waters, until the horizon on every hand was closed by ranges of lofty mountains.

On this hill the house stood broadly facing the east.

It was a large, square Georgian mansion, built of some white stone found in Yorkshire.