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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Page 103
... appearance as in plan by giving the family living quarters slightly greater height and an altogether more impressive symmetrical appearance than the service wing [ 169 ] . The domestic rooms comprise , on each side of an internal stack ...
... appearance as in plan by giving the family living quarters slightly greater height and an altogether more impressive symmetrical appearance than the service wing [ 169 ] . The domestic rooms comprise , on each side of an internal stack ...
Page 117
... appearance from as many viewpoints as possible and only the most grandiose , like Moor Park , succeeded in subordinating all the service quarters to this ambition . Some service functions were diffi- cult to accommodate . The kitchen ...
... appearance from as many viewpoints as possible and only the most grandiose , like Moor Park , succeeded in subordinating all the service quarters to this ambition . Some service functions were diffi- cult to accommodate . The kitchen ...
Page 164
... appearance : 40/42 St Andrew's Street , Hertford [ 273 ] , is an early example of the new appearance influenced by London models after the Great Fire . The influence lay in the adoption of brick for a house of modest size and also in ...
... appearance : 40/42 St Andrew's Street , Hertford [ 273 ] , is an early example of the new appearance influenced by London models after the Great Fire . The influence lay in the adoption of brick for a house of modest size and also in ...
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