About this objectRectangular oak sheet with raised panel on back; decoration of opposing fleurs-de-lys with heart-shaped border. Probably mid-seventeenth-century in date.
Taken from the so-called ‘Preston Castle’ in 1889. There never was a castle in the village: it was a name applied by the eccentric Robert Hinde to his home, otherwise known as Hunsdon House, which he embellished with battlements, a portcullis and a battery of small cannons. The house was demolished and rebuilt in the nineteenth century, perhaps when this panel was removed.
