"There's no way that anyone looking at it from any particular viewpoint could appreciate the E plan. So the fact that it is virtually an E shaped plan has little relationship to the name of the monarch who was the encumbrance at the time. Elizabeth is better represented, or would have been better represented, by having a reference to her on some kind of carving, which does not appear at the High House. What one has is a grand central entrance into a reception hall, a very large grand room to which most visitors to the house could be admitted. And then to left and right there are wings on each side and at the back in the middle there is a staircase and it's that staircase which makes the central portion of the E plan."
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