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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... reason to think there was less dif- ference between houses . Castles , which were comparatively few , represented the highest social stratum . Below this social level , as architectural evidence elsewhere suggests , manor houses were ...
... reason to think there was less dif- ference between houses . Castles , which were comparatively few , represented the highest social stratum . Below this social level , as architectural evidence elsewhere suggests , manor houses were ...
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... reason to suppose that these two - phase Wealdens form more than a small proportion of the total , yet they are ... reasons , hall and cross- wing houses demonstrably of one build are rarer than might be expected . Rumbolds in Cottered ...
... reason to suppose that these two - phase Wealdens form more than a small proportion of the total , yet they are ... reasons , hall and cross- wing houses demonstrably of one build are rarer than might be expected . Rumbolds in Cottered ...
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... reason , in roofs with clasped or tenoned purlins , for extending the plate beyond its natural termination at the end truss ; either two or four major tim- bers needed protection for the exposed end - grain . This holds good for Burston ...
... reason , in roofs with clasped or tenoned purlins , for extending the plate beyond its natural termination at the end truss ; either two or four major tim- bers needed protection for the exposed end - grain . This holds good for Burston ...
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