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 30
... expressed by the term ' reputed manor ' . What is so lacking at 47 Digswell House , Welwyn Garden City ( Oldfield ) all levels is knowledge of the other buildings that made up the manorial complex . This applies pre - eminently to the ...
... expressed by the term ' reputed manor ' . What is so lacking at 47 Digswell House , Welwyn Garden City ( Oldfield ) all levels is knowledge of the other buildings that made up the manorial complex . This applies pre - eminently to the ...
Page 79
... expressed by an inferior appearance , they had to be as inconspicuous as possible from the front in order not to mar the approach to the main house , yet they could not be sited at the back because that would spoil the layout and view ...
... expressed by an inferior appearance , they had to be as inconspicuous as possible from the front in order not to mar the approach to the main house , yet they could not be sited at the back because that would spoil the layout and view ...
Page 103
... expressed as fully in 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 ...
... expressed as fully in 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 ...
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