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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... chief under the king , built the aisled hall , it was he who settled the house on his wife at their marriage in 1241 , and it may not be coincidental that his family henceforth adopted Fitz Simon as a surname . Almshoe Bury thus raises ...
... chief under the king , built the aisled hall , it was he who settled the house on his wife at their marriage in 1241 , and it may not be coincidental that his family henceforth adopted Fitz Simon as a surname . Almshoe Bury thus raises ...
Page 76
... chief ground of beauty in uniformity [ ie , symmetry ] is usefulness ' . " How far back in time architectural evidence of this kind can be found has yet to be established . Raynham Hall ( Norfolk ) , begun in 1622 , was entered by cross ...
... chief ground of beauty in uniformity [ ie , symmetry ] is usefulness ' . " How far back in time architectural evidence of this kind can be found has yet to be established . Raynham Hall ( Norfolk ) , begun in 1622 , was entered by cross ...
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... chief pleasure of a country house is to make improvements , my lord . I spare no expense , not I. This is quite another sort of place from when I first took it ... ' . ' On the limited evidence provided by a single county a typology of ...
... chief pleasure of a country house is to make improvements , my lord . I spare no expense , not I. This is quite another sort of place from when I first took it ... ' . ' On the limited evidence provided by a single county a typology of ...
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