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 68
... passed to one or other of the rooms in the principal first - floor suite . These are reached by a main stair still placed much as it would have been in earlier houses , in close relation to the upper end of the hall . Three flights of a ...
... passed to one or other of the rooms in the principal first - floor suite . These are reached by a main stair still placed much as it would have been in earlier houses , in close relation to the upper end of the hall . Three flights of a ...
Page 175
... passing - braces Few forms of roof construction not already familiar to stu- dents of the subject were found . At the 12th - century Burston Manor , St Stephen , a hitherto unrecorded form of passing - brace was discovered which is ...
... passing - braces Few forms of roof construction not already familiar to stu- dents of the subject were found . At the 12th - century Burston Manor , St Stephen , a hitherto unrecorded form of passing - brace was discovered which is ...
Page 176
... passing - braces rising from the outer walls to the nave tie - beams . This is likely to be the ' new great barn built at Crokesle ' some time between 1396 and 1401.5 A different combination of passing - braces and crown - posts is ...
... passing - braces rising from the outer walls to the nave tie - beams . This is likely to be the ' new great barn built at Crokesle ' some time between 1396 and 1401.5 A different combination of passing - braces and crown - posts is ...
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