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 20
... soon exploited in Hertfordshire . - At first the new material was used as a facing to walls of chalk or flint rubble , or for quoins and the dressings - jambs , mullions , arched heads of doors and windows , while in the more costly ...
... soon exploited in Hertfordshire . - At first the new material was used as a facing to walls of chalk or flint rubble , or for quoins and the dressings - jambs , mullions , arched heads of doors and windows , while in the more costly ...
Page 79
... soon after the Restoration , is not much larger but , unlike the Manor House , where the staircase was approached from the hall through a lobby , had what may be regarded as an essential attribute of the double - pile : a staircase so ...
... soon after the Restoration , is not much larger but , unlike the Manor House , where the staircase was approached from the hall through a lobby , had what may be regarded as an essential attribute of the double - pile : a staircase so ...
Page 147
... soon after 1475 , when the Guild was founded . A year later the Brotherhood or Guild of St John the Baptist was founded at Ashwell , and its mem- bers likewise proceeded to build a hall [ 242 ] . It , too , was jet- tied at the front ...
... soon after 1475 , when the Guild was founded . A year later the Brotherhood or Guild of St John the Baptist was founded at Ashwell , and its mem- bers likewise proceeded to build a hall [ 242 ] . It , too , was jet- tied at the front ...
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