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 xiv
... writing . Two former members of staff , Mr R F Meades and Mrs L Titmus , pre- pared drawings at an early stage . Dr Bridgett Jones undertook valuable documentary research in Hertford and other record offices ; Mrs Pauline Fenley acted ...
... writing . Two former members of staff , Mr R F Meades and Mrs L Titmus , pre- pared drawings at an early stage . Dr Bridgett Jones undertook valuable documentary research in Hertford and other record offices ; Mrs Pauline Fenley acted ...
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... writing of Breconshire , occasionally mentions a family as abandoning partible inheritance ( which he refers to as gavelkind ) , adopting a surname in place of a three - generation name of the type of John ap Morgan ap Evan , and ...
... writing of Breconshire , occasionally mentions a family as abandoning partible inheritance ( which he refers to as gavelkind ) , adopting a surname in place of a three - generation name of the type of John ap Morgan ap Evan , and ...
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... write that ' the carpenters have brought up stairs in six several places from the ground to the top of the house ' ; these must have been the four staircases in the cor- ner turrets on the south front and the two called in the account ...
... write that ' the carpenters have brought up stairs in six several places from the ground to the top of the house ' ; these must have been the four staircases in the cor- ner turrets on the south front and the two called in the account ...
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