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 ...
Page 46
... written than the surviving remains alone would permit . Some architectural information is to be had for about thirty country or manor houses built between 1540 and 1640 . They vary in size from the huge Theobalds Manor , Cheshunt , to ...
... written than the surviving remains alone would permit . Some architectural information is to be had for about thirty country or manor houses built between 1540 and 1640 . They vary in size from the huge Theobalds Manor , Cheshunt , to ...
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... written about the changes in internal planning , except for a few of the largest houses . The best guide to the evolution of internal planning is the recognition of forms unlike those of immediately preceding or subsequent periods ...
... written about the changes in internal planning , except for a few of the largest houses . The best guide to the evolution of internal planning is the recognition of forms unlike those of immediately preceding or subsequent periods ...
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