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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... sent very uncertain - and although some of the roof timbers are 17th - century work everything else about the house is no earlier than the post - fire rebuilding and much of it is a good deal later [ 3 ] . Nevertheless , certain ...
... sent very uncertain - and although some of the roof timbers are 17th - century work everything else about the house is no earlier than the post - fire rebuilding and much of it is a good deal later [ 3 ] . Nevertheless , certain ...
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... sent context ; a few are known from the 12th to early 14th centuries , but even some of them may have had a small chamber at one end . " Possibly small open - hearth houses whose owners did not need a representational hall always had ...
... sent context ; a few are known from the 12th to early 14th centuries , but even some of them may have had a small chamber at one end . " Possibly small open - hearth houses whose owners did not need a representational hall always had ...
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... sent the town inn into a decline . Coinciding with the growth of residential suburbs , which drew people out of the town centre , the development of the railway hotel provides a symbolic full stop to the story not only of the inn but of ...
... sent the town inn into a decline . Coinciding with the growth of residential suburbs , which drew people out of the town centre , the development of the railway hotel provides a symbolic full stop to the story not only of the inn but of ...
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