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 98
... late 17th century . Perhaps little more than the shell , a framework of principal posts and beams , survives from the late medieval hall , or possibly only the outline of its ground plan is pre- served by a later structure which has ...
... late 17th century . Perhaps little more than the shell , a framework of principal posts and beams , survives from the late medieval hall , or possibly only the outline of its ground plan is pre- served by a later structure which has ...
Page 150
... late medieval , and no evidence of a chimney- stack earlier than the present one ; yet , despite this negative evidence , there must surely have been a chimney - stack , for the building was in all likelihood a small house . 100 11 245 ...
... late medieval , and no evidence of a chimney- stack earlier than the present one ; yet , despite this negative evidence , there must surely have been a chimney - stack , for the building was in all likelihood a small house . 100 11 245 ...
Page 174
... Late 17th cent . Late 16th cent . 19th cent . modern room plan Site of Hall circa 1400 Late 17th cent . circa 1500 289 The Swan , Berkhamsted : development plan restricted frontage was available , appears to have been less able to ...
... Late 17th cent . Late 16th cent . 19th cent . modern room plan Site of Hall circa 1400 Late 17th cent . circa 1500 289 The Swan , Berkhamsted : development plan restricted frontage was available , appears to have been less able 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