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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... Father ' . This invites comparison with the situation in Wales in the 16th and 17th centuries , where a significant conjunction of architectural and social changes was remarked on by at least one hist- orian . Theophilus Jones , writing ...
... Father ' . This invites comparison with the situation in Wales in the 16th and 17th centuries , where a significant conjunction of architectural and social changes was remarked on by at least one hist- orian . Theophilus Jones , writing ...
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... father and son , Joshua and Thomas Lomax , in the 1670s and 1680s respectively . Unfortunately , neither house retains any of its original internal fittings ; even such fundamental features as staircases and the sizes of rooms have been ...
... father and son , Joshua and Thomas Lomax , in the 1670s and 1680s respectively . Unfortunately , neither house retains any of its original internal fittings ; even such fundamental features as staircases and the sizes of rooms have been ...
Page 94
... father , who lived until 1686. Such two - generation house- holds may have been common ; for example , Henry St John , Viscount Bolingbroke , and his father are said to have lived together in the manor house at Battersea until the ...
... father , who lived until 1686. Such two - generation house- holds may have been common ; for example , Henry St John , Viscount Bolingbroke , and his father are said to have lived together in the manor house at Battersea until the ...
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