Eastbury Manor House, Barking. Being the Eleventh Monograph of the
London Survey Committee, with Drawings by H. V. C. Csulis.—This elaborately illustrated account of a beautiful old Tudor house near Barking is of much intrinsic interest. It is intended also, as Mr. Philip Norman explains, to assist the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings to raise £3,000 for the purchase of the house, so that the National Trust may maintain it for the benefit of the public. A comparison of the photographs with the old drawings shows that Eastbury, which is probably pre-Elizabethan, has suffered comparatively little, externally at least, though the rural charm of its surroundings has vanished long since. The details, such as the entrance-porch with its traceried pediment, the tall red-brick chimney-stacks, and the staircase turret, are exceptionally good, and it would be a pity if so attractive an example of Tudor work were allowed to disappear.
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