There are visible remains of this lock, indicating that it had stone piers at both ends to support the gates, with turf sides between them.
The clay came free from a natural source 4km away, but only men were allowed to collect it, explained the father, Miguel, because women brought bad luck and made it have stones in it.
The breakfast room has stone floors.
The cellar below is of the same date and is the best preserved medieval cellar in Oxford; originally entered by stone steps from the street, it has a stone vault divided into four sections by two diagonal ribs, with carved corbels.
Tiled, it wasn't, but it did have stones underfoot and, on occasion, a railing.
It has a stone gas fireplace, an intercom system between rooms, a private deck and a master suite with a whirlpool bath.
It has a stone fireplace; vaulted ceilings; two decks, including one with a hot tub; a screened porch; and two bathrooms.
Built into a mountainside above Snowmass, Colorado, it has curved stone walls, a flat roof, and several sets of solar panels, some of which rotate to track the angle of the sun.
It has a stone exterior on the first floor, fish-scale shingles on the second, a little turret in front, and -- behind the turret -- space that until the 1960's was the librarian's apartment.
