Its rooms were of extraordinary size and very lofty, their windows being wide and high and numerous.

Its corridors were like streets, its stairways broad enough for four people to ascend them abreast.

Light, air, space were throughout its distinguishing qualities, and its furnishings were not only very handsome, they had in a special manner that honest size, solidity, and breadth which make English household belongings so comfortable and satisfactory.

The grounds were full of handsome forest trees and wonderful grassy glades and just around the house the soil had been enriched and planted with shrubbery and flowers.
Its great proportions in every respect suited both John Hatton and the woman for whom it was built.

Both of them appeared to gain a positive majesty of appearance in the splendid reaches of its immense rooms.
Certainly they would have dwarfed small people, but John and Jane Hatton were large enough to appropriate and become a part of their surroundings.