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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... known already of royal castles and palaces shows that such a hall was a major building surrounded by several lesser ones . One such was a chapel . Almshoe Bury is the only sur- viving manor house known to have had a chapel , but other ...
... known already of royal castles and palaces shows that such a hall was a major building surrounded by several lesser ones . One such was a chapel . Almshoe Bury is the only sur- viving manor house known to have had a chapel , but other ...
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... known collectively as the familia . The grandest aisled halls - at Almshoe Bury and Hertford Castle - may have had a second , smaller hall for the daily use of the staff as distinct from the retinue , much like the small preceptory of ...
... known collectively as the familia . The grandest aisled halls - at Almshoe Bury and Hertford Castle - may have had a second , smaller hall for the daily use of the staff as distinct from the retinue , much like the small preceptory of ...
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... known because two have now lost nearly all their original internal features and the third has long been demolished , yet the break with customary modes of planning that they represent is still of some interest . The Grove , Sarratt ...
... known because two have now lost nearly all their original internal features and the third has long been demolished , yet the break with customary modes of planning that they represent is still of some interest . The Grove , Sarratt ...
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