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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: 19. Stokesay Castle, Shropshire (cir. 1240-90).]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Gotch/wm/big/37-Stokesay-Castle-Ground-Plan-q75-233x200.jpg "[picture: 19. Stokesay Castle, Shropshire (cir. 1240-90).]")
19. Stokesay Castle, Shropshire (cir. 1240-90).
Ground Plan.
There are lots of other pictures of Stokesay Castle here; try a search for Shropshire. [$]
![[picture: Bay Window at Thornbury Castle, Gloucester.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Gotch/wm/big/108-bay-window-at-thornbury-castle-78x200.jpg "[picture: Bay Window at Thornbury Castle, Gloucester.]")
108. Bay Window at Thornbury Castle, Gloucester.
“Besides the simple and dignified forms which were chiefly used, there were a few cases in which the plan was more complicated, and in which it took one shape on the ground floor and another on the floor above. Thorpe has several instances of this quaint treatment; an actual example exists at Thornbury Castle (Fig. [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: 68. Fawsley, Northamptonshire.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Gotch/wm/big/68-Fawsley,Northamptonshire,BayWindow-203x200.jpg "[picture: 68. Fawsley, Northamptonshire.]")
68. Fawsley, Northamptonshire.
Bay Window of the Hall (late 15th century) (in the Perpendicular style. There is an official web site for Fawsley Hall.) [more...] [$]
![[picture: Warkworth Castle, Desktop Background Version]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Gotch/wm/big/045-Warkworth-Castle-Northumberland-bg-q75-267x200.jpg "[picture: Warkworth Castle, Desktop Background Version]")
Warkworth Castle, Desktop Background Version
Version of Warwkworth Castle cropped, resized and hand-coloured by Liam Quin to make a computer background for your desktop (a wallpaper image).
I thought this looked like a nice imposing mediaeval castle (OK, medieval castle to people who spell differently) and yet is simple enough not to be too distracting. On the other hand, this is in border country, in the northernmost county of England before the Scottish border. The castle fell into ruin after the Roman Catholic Percy family fought alongside the [more...] [$]
![[picture: 152. Swakeleys, Middlesex (<i>cir</i>. 1630).]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Gotch/wm/big/152-Swakeleys-Middlesex-q90-267x200.jpg "[picture: 152. Swakeleys, Middlesex (<i>cir</i>. 1630).]")
152. Swakeleys, Middlesex (cir. 1630).
If Inigo Jones made no use of a transitional style, others did so. [more...] [$]
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