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![[picture: Gotch]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Gotch/tn/000-gotch-book-cover-288x432.jpg "[picture: Gotch]")
Pictures from The Growth of the English House, A Short History of its Architectural Development from 100 to 1800, by J. Alfred Gotch, F.S.A., F.R.I.B.A., London, N.T. Batsford, 1909.
Any photographs here I believe to be out of copyright, since Alfred Gotch died in 1942, more than 50 years ago, and copyright expired before 1995, and Alfred Gotch was (obviously) not alive in 1996 in order to obtain “revived” copyright.
The text itself was still copyrighted until the end of 2012.
Title: The Growth of the English House
Published by: N.T. Batsford
City: London
Date: 1909
Total items: 33
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: 21. Stokesay Castle (General View)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Gotch/wm/big/39-stokesay-castle-320x200.jpg "[picture: 21. Stokesay Castle (General View)]")
21. Stokesay Castle (General View)
The hall and adjoining rooms are to the right; the south tower is in the centre; the Elizabethan gatehouse to the left. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Sheldons, Wiltshire [Frontispiece].]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Gotch/wm/big/00-sheldon-139x200.jpg "[picture: Sheldons, Wiltshire [Frontispiece].]")
Sheldons, Wiltshire [Frontispiece].
“Sheldons Manor in Wiltshire is a charming example of alteration. The original house, of which the porch is a part, was built by the Gascelyns in the fourteenth century. The sixteenth-century addition with its rectangular, mullioned windows, was built over earlier walls by the Hungerfords, and to their successors may be attributed the eighteenth-century gate piers.
Like many old manor houses, Sheldons has ceased to be the home of the squire, and has become a farmhouse. In half the [more...] [$]
![[picture: 2. Castle Hedingham, Essex]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Gotch/wm/big/08-Castle-Hedingham-Essex-the-Keep-q85-171x200.jpg "[picture: 2. Castle Hedingham, Essex]")
![[picture: Window from Sir Paul Pindar's House, Bishopsgate.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Gotch/wm/big/109-window-from-sir-paul-pindars-house-144x200.jpg "[picture: Window from Sir Paul Pindar's House, Bishopsgate.]")
109. Window from Sir Paul Pindar’s House, Bishopsgate.
Now in the Victoria and Albert Musem [London]. Bishopsgate Street is in London. [$]
![[picture: 8. The Peak Castle, Derbysire (1176)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Gotch/wm/big/008-The-Peak-Castle,-Derbyshire-q75-397x200.jpg "[picture: 8. The Peak Castle, Derbysire (1176)]")
8. The Peak Castle, Derbysire (1176)
“The keep itself, which was built in 1176, is very similar in arrangement to the peel-towers of the Scottish border and to the towers which elsewhere formed the nucleus of many fortified houses. It probably represents the first step in domestic planning, and may be regarded as one of the [...] [more...] [$]
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