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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... stone , this building is likely to have been of brick . If a minor structure were so built , the same material may well have been used in the house . During the first half of the 16th century , brick came into use for additions to good ...
... stone , this building is likely to have been of brick . If a minor structure were so built , the same material may well have been used in the house . During the first half of the 16th century , brick came into use for additions to good ...
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... stone or brick , a beam of a scantling proportional to the width of the opening was set above it ; this relieving beam sometimes just touches the apex of the four - centred arch of brick ( or flattish triangular head formed of two stones ) ...
... stone or brick , a beam of a scantling proportional to the width of the opening was set above it ; this relieving beam sometimes just touches the apex of the four - centred arch of brick ( or flattish triangular head formed of two stones ) ...
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... Stone , L 1965. Social Change and Revolution in England 1540-1640 . Stone , L and Stone , J 1972. ' Country houses and their owners in Hertfordshire 1540-1879 ′ in W O Aydelotte , A G Bogue and R W Fogel ( eds ) The Dimensions of ...
... Stone , L 1965. Social Change and Revolution in England 1540-1640 . Stone , L and Stone , J 1972. ' Country houses and their owners in Hertfordshire 1540-1879 ′ in W O Aydelotte , A G Bogue and R W Fogel ( eds ) The Dimensions 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