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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... Lady Ravensdale ) ; Hitchin Museum 274 ; Meynell Collection 212 ; Public Record Office 103 , 105 ; The Royal Society 2 ; St Albans Public Library 18 ; Watford Central Library 10 , 250 . The Royal Commission is indebted to Hertford ...
... Lady Ravensdale ) ; Hitchin Museum 274 ; Meynell Collection 212 ; Public Record Office 103 , 105 ; The Royal Society 2 ; St Albans Public Library 18 ; Watford Central Library 10 , 250 . The Royal Commission is indebted to Hertford ...
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... Ladies greatt Stayres ' ; ' The smaller Stayres ' were additional to these . " A generation later , the equality of each end of the double - pile Winslow Hall ( Bucks ) was also expressed by equal staircases . Celia Fiennes ' reference ...
... Ladies greatt Stayres ' ; ' The smaller Stayres ' were additional to these . " A generation later , the equality of each end of the double - pile Winslow Hall ( Bucks ) was also expressed by equal staircases . Celia Fiennes ' reference ...
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... Lady and with mouldings that date the hall to soon after 1475 , when the Guild was founded . A year later the Brotherhood or Guild of St John the Baptist was founded at Ashwell , and its mem- bers likewise proceeded to build a hall ...
... Lady and with mouldings that date the hall to soon after 1475 , when the Guild was founded . A year later the Brotherhood or Guild of St John the Baptist was founded at Ashwell , and its mem- bers likewise proceeded to build a hall ...
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