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 67
... believe he onely meant to repaire at first , which leads men into irremediable errors , & saves but little ' . ' Comparison of new and altered houses will produce many examples of ' irremediable errors ' resulting from the inabili- ty ...
... believe he onely meant to repaire at first , which leads men into irremediable errors , & saves but little ' . ' Comparison of new and altered houses will produce many examples of ' irremediable errors ' resulting from the inabili- ty ...
Page 110
... believe that the two households were unrelated ; but despite this it has been stated that ' there slept together under each roof in 1600 only the nuclear family , with the addition of servants when nec- essary ' . This cannot be wholly ...
... believe that the two households were unrelated ; but despite this it has been stated that ' there slept together under each roof in 1600 only the nuclear family , with the addition of servants when nec- essary ' . This cannot be wholly ...
Page 144
... believe that this can often have hap- pened when so many fragmentary ones remain . Nor is the notion of alternate development ( p 96 ) easy to sustain , for in “ - THE BLACK TEN 238 The Black Lion , Bishop's Stortford : from the north ...
... believe that this can often have hap- pened when so many fragmentary ones remain . Nor is the notion of alternate development ( p 96 ) easy to sustain , for in “ - THE BLACK TEN 238 The Black Lion , Bishop's Stortford : from the north ...
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