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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... wish to thank Mr Smith for his outstanding service to the Royal Commission and for bringing this synthesis to completion . They also wish to join him in thank- ing colleagues who assisted in the recording of the individual buildings ...
... wish to thank Mr Smith for his outstanding service to the Royal Commission and for bringing this synthesis to completion . They also wish to join him in thank- ing colleagues who assisted in the recording of the individual buildings ...
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... wish to entertain the monarch , whatever the cost , in hopes of commensurate reward . Consequently , instead of leading simply to a large withdrawing room , the great staircase pro- vided the approach to several rooms intended primarily ...
... wish to entertain the monarch , whatever the cost , in hopes of commensurate reward . Consequently , instead of leading simply to a large withdrawing room , the great staircase pro- vided the approach to several rooms intended primarily ...
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... wish to provide premises at slightly different rents . In the reconstructed plan , which discounts 19th - century alterations , five tenements each had , on the second floor , two heated rooms and two others which varied in size from ...
... wish to provide premises at slightly different rents . In the reconstructed plan , which discounts 19th - century alterations , five tenements each had , on the second floor , two heated rooms and two others which varied in size from ...
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