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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... suppose that first- floor rooms at the upper end of the hall were invariably regarded in the Middle Ages , as they usually are today , as being superior in status to those at the lower end , or that where there were two wings the ...
... suppose that first- floor rooms at the upper end of the hall were invariably regarded in the Middle Ages , as they usually are today , as being superior in status to those at the lower end , or that where there were two wings the ...
Page 45
... suppose that the majority abandoned the open hearth ; indeed , some early 16th - century houses appear to have continued in use with an open hearth for a hundred years or more . The small farmhouse called Peartrees , Ardeley , was built ...
... suppose that the majority abandoned the open hearth ; indeed , some early 16th - century houses appear to have continued in use with an open hearth for a hundred years or more . The small farmhouse called Peartrees , Ardeley , was built ...
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... suppose that they had been modified to meet Elizabethan practice . Gorhambury , for which there is a painstaking reconstruction based on documents and recollections of its plan by a mem- ber of the family , shows what became for a long ...
... suppose that they had been modified to meet Elizabethan practice . Gorhambury , for which there is a painstaking reconstruction based on documents and recollections of its plan by a mem- ber of the family , shows what became for a long ...
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