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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... tell how widespread the use of brick was by the early 16th century . Pendley Manor , Tring , as engraved by John Oliver for Chauncy's History [ 35 ] , has what looks Shown by Oldfield , c.1800- 11 " 1 11 ". 21 Medieval manor houses.
... tell how widespread the use of brick was by the early 16th century . Pendley Manor , Tring , as engraved by John Oliver for Chauncy's History [ 35 ] , has what looks Shown by Oldfield , c.1800- 11 " 1 11 ". 21 Medieval manor houses.
Page 188
... tell - tale joints are concealed . This conjecture may explain a feature of the first two Hearth Tax assessments in Hertfordshire , that in certain households the number paid for drops by one from 1662 to 1663 - a reduction quite con ...
... tell - tale joints are concealed . This conjecture may explain a feature of the first two Hearth Tax assessments in Hertfordshire , that in certain households the number paid for drops by one from 1662 to 1663 - a reduction quite con ...
Page 189
... tell us , stone was used for fireplaces from the late 15th century to the late 17th century . It was probably used earlier in large mid 15th - century brick houses although no trace of such work remains . The earliest ones were the best ...
... tell us , stone was used for fireplaces from the late 15th century to the late 17th century . It was probably used earlier in large mid 15th - century brick houses although no trace of such work remains . The earliest ones were the best ...
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