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 62
... side , the base court , the north court and , also on the north side of the house , the stable court , one side of which was formed by the Old Palace converted into stables ; it had ' a great gate giving out into the park ' . " The ...
... side , the base court , the north court and , also on the north side of the house , the stable court , one side of which was formed by the Old Palace converted into stables ; it had ' a great gate giving out into the park ' . " The ...
Page 89
... side of the middle axis and on each floor , a large window was flanked by two small ones , and the one end elevation which Buckler drew gives the impression that overall symmetry may have been attained . What the front suggests is an ...
... side of the middle axis and on each floor , a large window was flanked by two small ones , and the one end elevation which Buckler drew gives the impression that overall symmetry may have been attained . What the front suggests is an ...
Page 171
... side . But not all of this long range was given over to lodging chambers , for on the ground floor is an internal chimney with a stone fireplace of a width and quality which suggest that it served the principal room of the inn , the ...
... side . But not all of this long range was given over to lodging chambers , for on the ground floor is an internal chimney with a stone fireplace of a width and quality which suggest that it served the principal room of the inn , the ...
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