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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... gave gener- ously of his time in producing documents and answering queries . Mr Godfrey Meynell kindly permitted the copying and reproduction of certain drawings in his collection , as did Mr David Lewis a book of plans and drawings of ...
... gave gener- ously of his time in producing documents and answering queries . Mr Godfrey Meynell kindly permitted the copying and reproduction of certain drawings in his collection , as did Mr David Lewis a book of plans and drawings of ...
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... gave the town a lead which it maintained well into the 19th century , and as early as 1577 it had over 20 per cent of the inns in the whole county . By 1686 , St Albans provided 719 beds and stabling for 1,411 horses.25 The purpose ...
... gave the town a lead which it maintained well into the 19th century , and as early as 1577 it had over 20 per cent of the inns in the whole county . By 1686 , St Albans provided 719 beds and stabling for 1,411 horses.25 The purpose ...
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... gave access to two rooms , either by means of a lobby in one room or by providing a landing at the top of the stairs from which two doors could open . The only fireplaces were the two on the ground floor ( see [ 306 ] ) . Lighting must ...
... gave access to two rooms , either by means of a lobby in one room or by providing a landing at the top of the stairs from which two doors could open . The only fireplaces were the two on the ground floor ( see [ 306 ] ) . Lighting must ...
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