Homes in Britain, from the Earliest Times to 1900 |
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Norman and Transitional 10661200 | 14 |
The Sixteenth Century | 26 |
Copyright | |
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18th century Adam style arched architects balconies baths beams became bedroom Boothby Pagnell brick Britain builders building built ceiling central hearth chairs chimney-pieces chimneys Chinoiserie cities Classical columns coloured construction country cottages cruck designed dining doorways Dorset dwellings early elaborately carved elegant Elizabethan Essex example exterior façade farm farmhouses fashionable fireplace four-poster front door furniture gables Gloucestershire Gothic Gothic architecture GROUND FLOOR PLAN half-timbering hall Herefordshire houses illustrated illustrated opposite Inigo Jones interior decoration Italian jetties Kent KITCHEN late Georgian London mahogany MANOR HOUSE mansion massive medieval motifs moulded mullioned Norman ornament ornate painted panels PANTRY pediment period Philip Webb plaster popular porch pretentious Red House Regency reign Renaissance Robert Adam Roman roof Saxon shows solar staircase street style Surrey symmetrical terraced thatched tiles timber Tudor architecture typical upper floor Vanbrugh Victorian walls wattle and daub William Morris WINTER PARLOUR wood wooden Wren