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 70
... means of access to two bedchambers - an important one at the front of the house and another , less important because lack- ing an adjoining closet , at the back . The only other possible approach would have been by a corridor from the ...
... means of access to two bedchambers - an important one at the front of the house and another , less important because lack- ing an adjoining closet , at the back . The only other possible approach would have been by a corridor from the ...
Page 172
... 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 have pre- sented some problems in ...
... 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 have pre- sented some problems in ...
Page 177
... means of stabi- lising couples of common rafters which were spaced , in early examples , equidistantly along a roof . Each post is jointed into a collar - purlin and into the collar - beam forming part of the couple , and by this ...
... means of stabi- lising couples of common rafters which were spaced , in early examples , equidistantly along a roof . Each post is jointed into a collar - purlin and into the collar - beam forming part of the couple , and by this ...
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