The Growth of the English House (page 1/6)

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3. Castle Hedingham, Essex

Plans of the Keep.
1. Ground Floor, or Basement.
2. First, or Entrance Floor.
3. The Great Hall.
4. Upper part of Hall, with Gallery.
5. Room over Hall. [more...] [$]

93. Horham Hall

Fig. 93. Horham Hall, Essex (early 16th cent.)

“Horham Hall, in Essex, is a good example, moderate in size, of this period. It was built in the early years of the sixteenth century by Sir John Cutt, who died in 1520. The plan (fig. 92) follows the ancient lines, the great hall being in its traditional relationship to the rest of the house. The old indifference to regularity is well illustrated by the passage, treated as a kind of bay window, which leads from the hall to the north wing. The windows in general have but one range of lights, but in the bay of the hall and in the passage, the lingering reluctance to adopt large windows is thrown away (Fig. 93), and we get a foretaste of that vast array of lights which was presently to become a distinguishing feature of domestic architecture. There is a large fireplace in the hall and a contemporary [more...] [$]

105. Montacute House, Somerset (1580)

The two-storey screen between the wings is of earlier date (circa 1520) and was brought from Clifton Maybank. [more...] [$]

152. Swakeleys, Middlesex (cir. 1630).

If Inigo Jones made no use of a transitional style, others did so. [more...] [$]

117. Derwent Hall, Derbyshire

Derwent Hall was built in 1672 by the Belguy family, and at some point passed to the Duke of Norfolk. In 1931 it became a youth hostel, but in 1945 the Derwent dam was completed and the valley was flooded; Derwent Hall is now under water, although in 1976 and 1989 it may have reappeared briefly when the water level fell. Some [...] [more...] [$]