In the shadow of the graceful staircase stood a grey medication trolley with the lid down.

It opened and she went inside to find a surprisingly roomy hall with several hand some mahogany 5* doors and a graceful staircase ahead of her.

On each floor, a series of rooms orbit around the graceful center-hall staircase.

At the far end of the entry hall was a graceful staircase that swept up to a small landing.

Carrying these, he lurched down the graceful curving staircase to his father's cramped corner office behind the conservatory.

There was a graceful staircase leading to the floor above.

She led Florence, speechless and cross, up the graceful little staircase to one side of the hall.

The captain led him through a spacious entry foyer, where a graceful staircase curved upward to the second and third floors.

He led them down rough whitewashed steps beneath the graceful staircase and switched on the cellar light.

But the graceful, sweeping staircase to the second-floor galleries serves as an introduction to what lies ahead.