English Houses 1200-1800: The Hertfordshire EvidenceH.M. Stationery Office, 1992 - 215 pages English Houses details over six centuries of architectural history. Country houses, modest town houses and great halls are examined providing insights into the minds of the great builders from the 13th to the 19th century. |
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... Gorhambury , St Michael ( Gough ) 49 134 Offley Place ( Oldfield ) 87 Gorhambury , St Michael : late 16th - century porch 49 135 The Hoo , St Paul's Walden ( Drapentier ) 88 The Lordship , Standon ( Drapentier ) 50 89 The Lordship ...
... Gorhambury , St Michael ( Gough ) 49 134 Offley Place ( Oldfield ) 87 Gorhambury , St Michael : late 16th - century porch 49 135 The Hoo , St Paul's Walden ( Drapentier ) 88 The Lordship , Standon ( Drapentier ) 50 89 The Lordship ...
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... Gorhambury , St Michael : the old house ( Gough Maps 11 , fo . 36 " , item d ) and generally advertised as such by its tall windows . At Knebworth House the drawings made by the Revd John Skinner in 1805 convey the marked contrast ...
... Gorhambury , St Michael : the old house ( Gough Maps 11 , fo . 36 " , item d ) and generally advertised as such by its tall windows . At Knebworth House the drawings made by the Revd John Skinner in 1805 convey the marked contrast ...
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... Gorhambury too , in an equiva- lent position ( in continuation of the hall range and as close to the upper end of the hall as possible ) . Elsewhere there is no evidence . A royal suite of three rooms , perhaps a chapel , and a gallery ...
... Gorhambury too , in an equiva- lent position ( in continuation of the hall range and as close to the upper end of the hall as possible ) . Elsewhere there is no evidence . A royal suite of three rooms , perhaps a chapel , and a gallery ...
Contents
Medieval manor houses | 12 |
Late medieval vernacular houses in the countryside | 31 |
Country and manor houses from the Dissolution to the Civil War | 46 |
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17th century Abbots Langley appearance architectural Aspenden Aston Bury Manor Baldock Barkway Beechwood Park Berkhamsted Bishop's Stortford brick building built Cassiobury Cassiobury Park chamber chimney-stack Cottage country house courtyard cross-wing crown-post double-pile Drapentier dressing room early elevation entrance entrance-hall evidence example existed fireplace Fore Street front gable gentry Gorhambury ground floor Harpenden Hatfield House Hemel Hempstead Hertford Hertfordshire High Street Hitchin jettied kind kitchen Knebworth House late 17th century late medieval lintel Little Hadham lobby-entrance manor house market-place medieval house middle open hall original parlour Place principal purlins rafters range RCHME rebuilding roof Rothamsted Manor Royston Rural service rooms side social St Albans St Andrew's Street stack stair staircase Standon Stanstead Abbots Stevenage storeys structure timber timber-framed tion town Tree Farm Tring truss upper upstairs vernacular wall Ware Watford Wealden Wealden house Wheathampstead wing Wrotham Park Wyddial