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 59
... thing like it was originally . New Place , Gilston , was almost certainly another small - courtyard house ; Great Hyde Hall , Sawbridgeworth , may have approximated to this type by the early 17th century through gradual development ...
... thing like it was originally . New Place , Gilston , was almost certainly another small - courtyard house ; Great Hyde Hall , Sawbridgeworth , may have approximated to this type by the early 17th century through gradual development ...
Page 94
... thing to do with the anomalous social position of someone who opted out of the Civil War , because grand hospitality ( if that is what the duality of suites implies ) continued throughout the Commonwealth , as Rothamsted Manor attests ...
... thing to do with the anomalous social position of someone who opted out of the Civil War , because grand hospitality ( if that is what the duality of suites implies ) continued throughout the Commonwealth , as Rothamsted Manor attests ...
Page 120
... thing found in a new - built house , arise from its piecemeal rebuilding . It is not only the saloon that was different at Brocket Hall . A common dining parlour , perhaps equivalent to a break- fast room , was not so closely related to ...
... thing found in a new - built house , arise from its piecemeal rebuilding . It is not only the saloon that was different at Brocket Hall . A common dining parlour , perhaps equivalent to a break- fast room , was not so closely related to ...
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