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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... observed on a door lintel that may either have been reset or have formed part of an earlier house than the present one . The literary evidence begins with the clear statement that Edward Newport built , in 1619 , ' a slight but well ...
... observed on a door lintel that may either have been reset or have formed part of an earlier house than the present one . The literary evidence begins with the clear statement that Edward Newport built , in 1619 , ' a slight but well ...
Page 102
... observed , and perhaps the use of herring - bone pattern brickwork to form the fireback dis- couraged the building of cupboards . Food preparation may indeed have been carried on in a detached kitchen . In a house with three ground ...
... observed , and perhaps the use of herring - bone pattern brickwork to form the fireback dis- couraged the building of cupboards . Food preparation may indeed have been carried on in a detached kitchen . In a house with three ground ...
Page 106
... observed at Mackerye End Farm , Wheathampstead [ 176 ] ( now The Manor House ) . It is higher and wider than most houses of its kind and may be of two builds . Its plan combines the standard unit of the period - two rooms and lobby ...
... observed at Mackerye End Farm , Wheathampstead [ 176 ] ( now The Manor House ) . It is higher and wider than most houses of its kind and may be of two builds . Its plan combines the standard unit of the period - two rooms and lobby ...
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