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A History of the County of Oxford
… main building, which is partly timber-framed and partly stone, is a long range which was apparently once a single … house was described as a hand- some building of rough cast stone with sash windows and a stone slate roof; the outbuildings included a brewhouse, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… Lonsdale on the E. The standing cross, Kirfit Hall and the stone circle are the principal monuments. Secular b(1). … and near the N. boundary of the parish, is a roughly cut stone 3 ft. high. It has a triangular top and concave sides … cross-head of paty form is cut on the broadest part of the stone. The back of the stone is left rough. The cross stands …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Aire to Leeds. The united rivers are crossed by a handsome stone bridge of three arches, which was rebuilt in 1808, and … and corn-mills, several granaries, a pottery of black and stone ware, a whiting-mill, and glass-bottle works. A court …
A History of the County of Essex
… The keep was built of rubble, including much septaria, stone, and tile taken from Roman buildings, with dressings of … bailey, to a Colchester ironmonger, John Wheeley, for its stone. Wheeley, whose speculations had already driven him … intended for its present position. In the 12th century a stone forebuilding, which replaced an earlier timber stair, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… stones, the base and capital of a pillar and quantities of stone used for early buildings' were said to exist in the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… stands at the top of Ludgate Hill. The walls are of Portland stone and the roofs are covered with lead. Old St. Paul's … W. corner of Wardrobe Terrace. The walls are of brick with Portland-stone dressings and the low-pitched roof is covered …
A Survey of London
… against Pudle Wharfe, there is one ancient building of stone and timber, builded by the Lords of Barkley, and … yet the Armes of the Lord Barkley remaine in the stone worke of an Arched gate, and is betweene a Cheueron … side of this streete, is one other great house builded of stone, which belongeth to Powles church, and was sometime …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… horsehair weavers, rebuilt the Florida factory in yellow stone, first a three-storey, nine bayed building using the … with linked two-storey, 5-bay office block all of local stone with a Welsh slate roof was intended for residential … chimney, since demolished. All the buildings are of local stone with brick dressings under Roman tile roofs and have …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… forms the site of the town. 8 The Oolite furnished Cary stone although it was quarried mostly in neighbouring … 1780 the houses were said to be mainly two-storey of rough stone and thatched, as the George inn still is, although some were of good stone and brick. 1 Most were built of local Cary stone but …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… possibly during the civil war in 1130s, and burnt stone may relate to the military actions of 1138 and 1147 when the castle was said to have been levelled. The stone was probably robbed and excavations in 1999 indicated … The house may have been begun in the 13th century re-using stone from the old keep, but was probably rebuilt at least …