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 19
... once belonged to St Albans Abbey , incorporated a wing very similar to the one at The Old Rectory , Therfield , even to the extent of having a smaller wing projecting from it . A fragment of what may have been a comparable building ...
... once belonged to St Albans Abbey , incorporated a wing very similar to the one at The Old Rectory , Therfield , even to the extent of having a smaller wing projecting from it . A fragment of what may have been a comparable building ...
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... once existed are the surviv- ing houses ? The loss of buildings is most severe at the high- est level . Hunsdon House and Bushey Hall were houses of national importance in their day and whereas a little is known of them , the form of ...
... once existed are the surviv- ing houses ? The loss of buildings is most severe at the high- est level . Hunsdon House and Bushey Hall were houses of national importance in their day and whereas a little is known of them , the form of ...
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... once existed , although here , as in a number of other inns in the county , division of what was once a very large building into several occupations makes it difficult to be sure . The only positive means of identifying an inn other ...
... once existed , although here , as in a number of other inns in the county , division of what was once a very large building into several occupations makes it difficult to be sure . The only positive means of identifying an inn other ...
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