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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... mind ; indeed , his spacious hall was just what Chester's houses both lacked . Not far away , the rather earlier Wyddial Hall kept its open hall into the early 18th century . One difference between a late medieval magnate's house and an ...
... mind ; indeed , his spacious hall was just what Chester's houses both lacked . Not far away , the rather earlier Wyddial Hall kept its open hall into the early 18th century . One difference between a late medieval magnate's house and an ...
Page 60
... mind which involved the entertain- ment of some person of superior rank to whom the owner assigned the best rooms , himself retiring to the rooms between buttery and kitchen ; that is to say , in the way Hatfield House was intended to ...
... mind which involved the entertain- ment of some person of superior rank to whom the owner assigned the best rooms , himself retiring to the rooms between buttery and kitchen ; that is to say , in the way Hatfield House was intended to ...
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... mind and , where the fall of the ground permitted , the pavilion solution might equally have been adopted in improving an old house such as Newsells Park , Barkway . Whatever Wrotham Park may owe to the villa concept in appearance ...
... mind and , where the fall of the ground permitted , the pavilion solution might equally have been adopted in improving an old house such as Newsells Park , Barkway . Whatever Wrotham Park may owe to the villa concept in appearance ...
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