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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... never been elucidated satisfactorily and , indeed , has been contradicted in a number of instances where excavation has taken place on manorial sites . An alternative explanation , adopted here , has much in common with the concept of ...
... never been elucidated satisfactorily and , indeed , has been contradicted in a number of instances where excavation has taken place on manorial sites . An alternative explanation , adopted here , has much in common with the concept of ...
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... never was a town . Wheathampstead , which once had a market - place , either never grew to be a town or ceased to be one comparatively early . Rickmansworth , on the other hand , of which Leland said definitely that it ' is no market ...
... never was a town . Wheathampstead , which once had a market - place , either never grew to be a town or ceased to be one comparatively early . Rickmansworth , on the other hand , of which Leland said definitely that it ' is no market ...
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... never appear in even a large village ; but if it is correct that the upper storeys were not living accommodation , the statement can stand . The limitation of this study to Hertfordshire excludes certain rare forms of open - hall house ...
... never appear in even a large village ; but if it is correct that the upper storeys were not living accommodation , the statement can stand . The limitation of this study to Hertfordshire excludes certain rare forms of open - hall house ...
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