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 41
... honour being superior to those below the cross - passage . In fact , the situation is in many cases not very clear and the most that can be said with confidence is that by the 16th cen- tury a new house of any size was likely to have ...
... honour being superior to those below the cross - passage . In fact , the situation is in many cases not very clear and the most that can be said with confidence is that by the 16th cen- tury a new house of any size was likely to have ...
Page 42
... honour . Often the position of the staircase serving the cham- ber over the parlour gives a clue to the location of one door- way ; for even where the original staircase has disappeared , a later stair may occupy its customary position ...
... honour . Often the position of the staircase serving the cham- ber over the parlour gives a clue to the location of one door- way ; for even where the original staircase has disappeared , a later stair may occupy its customary position ...
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... honour ; efficient heating and lighting were subordinate con- siderations . A fireplace could be placed across the upper end , as at Dartington Hall , Devon , ' and Hertford Castle . In this case , the seat of honour presumably had to ...
... honour ; efficient heating and lighting were subordinate con- siderations . A fireplace could be placed across the upper end , as at Dartington Hall , Devon , ' and Hertford Castle . In this case , the seat of honour presumably had to ...
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