Ancestors of Cley

Under the gravel walk at the east front of the parsonage-house is a large and deep drain filled with large stones to receive the water falling from the house, it was made in April 1766.

A Cess-Pool eight feet deep, near five feet diameter, twenty feet from the stable-wall arched over, was made in the year 1767. The drains from the house, and the drain from the stable empty themselves into it.

When the Offices were built in September 1757. An arched-brick-drain 12 inches at the bottom and 14 inches high in the clear was made from the sink-stone runing (sic) by the north-wall of the brew-house, and receiving into it the water from the pantry, powdering-room, and larder, it goes out under the threshold of the brewhouse-door, on the outside of the threshold is a cess-pool, into which a stone hangs to hinder the return of the stink, the drain is continued through the yard to the cess-pool 20 feet from the stable-wall.

Source:

Blakeney General Register 1729-1791. NRO; PD619. MF691/27.

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