![]() ![]() Behind him is the east end of the room, where a window has been blocked in to make way for the shelves. The picture isn’t from 1938, but let it be. All the time his mind eager to get back to his desk, his books, his work.īelow is Evelyn standing at his desk. He’d walk out of the library, over the marble hall, through the inner hall, into the cloakroom. For instance, he had to leave the room whenever he wanted to relieve himself. Obviously Evelyn couldn’t spend all day in the library. The plan below was taken from the estate agents’ details. But one hell of a library in Evelyn’s day. In the photo below, all three of the windows to the left of the front door look into the library. ![]() The library is the left half of the ground floor at the front of the house. ![]() Well, no we couldn’t possibly have afforded to buy the Georgian mansion that is Piers Court, but I was interested in taking a look around and downloading the particulars from the estate agents’ website. The house was for sale and we were interested in buying it. It’s still there now, or at least it was when my partner Kate and I dropped by in 2006. In 1938 the Waugh coat of Arms was carved into the front pediment of the house. ![]()
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