Part of it is as old as the time of Charles II., and part dates from Queen Anne.

Something was added at a later date,--perhaps early in the Georges; but it was all done with good materials, and no stint of labour.

Shoddy had not been received among building materials when any portion of Folking was erected.

But then neither had modern ideas of comfort become in vogue.

Just behind the kitchen-garden a great cross ditch, called Foul-water Drain, runs, or rather creeps, down to the Wash, looking on that side as though it had been made to act as a moat to the house; and on the other side of the drain there is Twopenny Drove, at the end of which Twopenny Ferry leads to Twopenny Hall, a farmhouse across the Wash belonging to Mr.
Caldigate.