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 119
... existed between hall and drawing room ( on the right - hand side of the hall ) , completing a suite of three principal public rooms : dining room , hall and drawing room . Beechwood Park and Brocket Hall were like this , and probably ...
... existed between hall and drawing room ( on the right - hand side of the hall ) , completing a suite of three principal public rooms : dining room , hall and drawing room . Beechwood Park and Brocket Hall were like this , and probably ...
Page 132
... existed at the end of the 18th century and to create a new entrance front at right angles to the former one : almost a smaller version of The Grange , Sarratt , with the service rooms in the angle between the two arms of the resulting L ...
... existed at the end of the 18th century and to create a new entrance front at right angles to the former one : almost a smaller version of The Grange , Sarratt , with the service rooms in the angle between the two arms of the resulting L ...
Page 147
... existed there prior to 1738 . Guildhalls were among the largest and best - finished secu- lar buildings . From an architectural standpoint , the best of them , the building known as The Brotherhood , Hitchin , dis- played a remarkable ...
... existed there prior to 1738 . Guildhalls were among the largest and best - finished secu- lar buildings . From an architectural standpoint , the best of them , the building known as The Brotherhood , Hitchin , dis- played a remarkable ...
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