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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... nature of the material and the present state of knowledge , that many of the conclusions drawn about these houses are speculative . They are designed to contribute to the continuing discussion of a very rich and so far inadequately ...
... nature of the material and the present state of knowledge , that many of the conclusions drawn about these houses are speculative . They are designed to contribute to the continuing discussion of a very rich and so far inadequately ...
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... nature of the evidence and its interpretation WC Lo Lo K " " Little P Din K. One of the difficulties in writing about buildings , and parti- cularly about the very complicated sort in which Hertfordshire abounds , is to present ...
... nature of the evidence and its interpretation WC Lo Lo K " " Little P Din K. One of the difficulties in writing about buildings , and parti- cularly about the very complicated sort in which Hertfordshire abounds , is to present ...
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... is comparatively rich in graphic sources which , by their very abundance , reveal their contra- dictions and limitations . In cases where an architectural absurdity. 9 The nature of the evidence and its interpretation.
... is comparatively rich in graphic sources which , by their very abundance , reveal their contra- dictions and limitations . In cases where an architectural absurdity. 9 The nature of the evidence and its interpretation.
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