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 38
... thought to be the classic late 15th - century type , seems to have been comparatively rare . 10 So a single two - storey block was the usual requirement in a late medieval house , and there were three ways of provid- ing it . Where this ...
... thought to be the classic late 15th - century type , seems to have been comparatively rare . 10 So a single two - storey block was the usual requirement in a late medieval house , and there were three ways of provid- ing it . Where this ...
Page 72
... thought that the duality apparent in so many houses was the inevitable consequence of partial rebuilding and the adaptation of an older plan . True , there were diffi- culties in adding a room or a passage behind a large exter- nal ...
... thought that the duality apparent in so many houses was the inevitable consequence of partial rebuilding and the adaptation of an older plan . True , there were diffi- culties in adding a room or a passage behind a large exter- nal ...
Page 160
... thought not to have appeared until much later.16 So far , no shop fronts of the late 16th or early 17th cen- turies have been identified in Hertfordshire . A drawing of an ' Ancient House ' in Berkhamsted [ 263 ] shows , in the left ...
... thought not to have appeared until much later.16 So far , no shop fronts of the late 16th or early 17th cen- turies have been identified in Hertfordshire . A drawing of an ' Ancient House ' in Berkhamsted [ 263 ] shows , in the left ...
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