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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... received inquiries ; to establish generali- sations which might enable houses not reported on to be interpreted ; and to draw historical conclusions from the architectural evidence . At that time a target of about 500 buildings was ...
... received inquiries ; to establish generali- sations which might enable houses not reported on to be interpreted ; and to draw historical conclusions from the architectural evidence . At that time a target of about 500 buildings was ...
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... received his surname from his Father ' . This invites comparison with the situation in Wales in the 16th and 17th centuries , where a significant conjunction of architectural and social changes was remarked on by at least one hist ...
... received his surname from his Father ' . This invites comparison with the situation in Wales in the 16th and 17th centuries , where a significant conjunction of architectural and social changes was remarked on by at least one hist ...
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... received borrowed light through wooden grilles running the length of the partitions which separated them from the staircase . Whether the end room was originally divided up with an ante - room or dress- ing room next to the staircase is ...
... received borrowed light through wooden grilles running the length of the partitions which separated them from the staircase . Whether the end room was originally divided up with an ante - room or dress- ing room next to the staircase 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