From out the Vasty Deep by Marie Belloc Lowndes

A turn in the road brought them within sight of Wyndfell Hall, and -- "What a singular, wonderful-looking old place! " exclaimed Dr. Panton.

And, indeed, there was something mysteriously alluring in the long, gabled building standing almost, as it were, on an island, among the high trees which formed a screen to the house on the north and east sides. It was something solemn, something appealing -- like a melodious, plaintive voice from the long-distant past, out of that Old Country which was the England of six hundred years ago.