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 31
... person of a given social rank . A comparison between standing buildings and the con- siderable number of manorial halls found by archaeological excavation reveals a measure of uniformity from the late 12th to the 14th centuries , as if ...
... person of a given social rank . A comparison between standing buildings and the con- siderable number of manorial halls found by archaeological excavation reveals a measure of uniformity from the late 12th to the 14th centuries , as if ...
Page 46
... persons of quality waited on him . . . which at that time ( when thirty or forty was the usual retinue of the High Sheriff ) was esteemed a great matter ' . ' These circum- stances produced many new houses , which were generally larger ...
... persons of quality waited on him . . . which at that time ( when thirty or forty was the usual retinue of the High Sheriff ) was esteemed a great matter ' . ' These circum- stances produced many new houses , which were generally larger ...
Page 60
... person of superior rank to whom the owner assigned the best rooms , himself retiring to the rooms between buttery and kitchen ; that is to say , in the way Hatfield House was intended to be used . Any such visitor was accompanied only ...
... person of superior rank to whom the owner assigned the best rooms , himself retiring to the rooms between buttery and kitchen ; that is to say , in the way Hatfield House was intended to be used . Any such visitor was accompanied only ...
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