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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... deal later [ 3 ] . Nevertheless , certain features of the plan [ 4 ] and structure of Wyddial Hall that are anomalous in a mid 18th - century house can best be explained by postulating the survival of much earlier arrangements , some of ...
... deal later [ 3 ] . Nevertheless , certain features of the plan [ 4 ] and structure of Wyddial Hall that are anomalous in a mid 18th - century house can best be explained by postulating the survival of much earlier arrangements , some of ...
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... deal with correspondence , to meet those who came on business , and to host receptions . Meetings may not always have demanded a special room a parlour or any suitably fur- nished room could be pressed into service and official papers ...
... deal with correspondence , to meet those who came on business , and to host receptions . Meetings may not always have demanded a special room a parlour or any suitably fur- nished room could be pressed into service and official papers ...
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... deal of Meal ... and indeed without them the City , at Times of Drought or Frost , when Water - Carriage fails , could not sub- sist ' . It had the largest market buildings in the county , nor were they only for corn . The twelve ...
... deal of Meal ... and indeed without them the City , at Times of Drought or Frost , when Water - Carriage fails , could not sub- sist ' . It had the largest market buildings in the county , nor were they only for corn . The twelve ...
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