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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... looked at the houses of the county , was deceived at times . He accepted that Rawdon House , Hoddesdon , was built in 1622 , the date over the porch and on rain - water heads , yet a Buckler drawing of the front [ 15 ] shows no such ...
... looked at the houses of the county , was deceived at times . He accepted that Rawdon House , Hoddesdon , was built in 1622 , the date over the porch and on rain - water heads , yet a Buckler drawing of the front [ 15 ] shows no such ...
Page 32
... looked perfectly orthodox . In fact the supposedly altered end bay is a short cross - wing , apparently the service wing , which projects very slightly at the back and is a separate framed structure quite indepen- dent of the Wealden ...
... looked perfectly orthodox . In fact the supposedly altered end bay is a short cross - wing , apparently the service wing , which projects very slightly at the back and is a separate framed structure quite indepen- dent of the Wealden ...
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... looked old- fashioned . At just that period Hammond's Farm , Pirton [ 165 ] , was transformed by rebuilding everything below the upper end of the hall to produce what was in effect a new house with an unconventional plan [ 166 ] . The ...
... looked old- fashioned . At just that period Hammond's Farm , Pirton [ 165 ] , was transformed by rebuilding everything below the upper end of the hall to produce what was in effect a new house with an unconventional plan [ 166 ] . 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