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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Under such conditions it is likely that country houses of Roman type began to spring up almost immediately … with a Celtic war god Camulus. Farms and Country-houses.These are fairly numerous, and the presence of bricks … timber; after that period a certain number of the larger houses were built of brick. Stone is confined to the domestic …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… and desolation in the dark ages. Settlements and Houses.No remains of military works have so far come to … have been discovered at Chelmsford, and remains of houses at Chigwell, Latton, Pleshey, and Wanstead. Other … and Eastbury House are the most important. The earlier houses in this part of the county are all of timber as well …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Middlesex
… Green passes mostly through gardens and among modern houses, two of which (Nos. 38 and 40 "The Close") actually … built on either side and parallel to the earthwork, the houses of which have gardens running down the bank on the … Royston Grove, the bank again appears at the back of the houses on the S. side of Royston Park Road until it …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… and the Manor House, Croom's Hill. There are brick summer-houses at Charlton House and Croom's Hill. All the buildings …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… mainly a timber-built city; only the churches, the larger houses and some of the halls of the City Companies were built … college, has no surviving remains. There were three houses of Austin Canons in the City, two within and one … and Stationers' Companies. Comparatively few of the larger houses erected after the Great Fire have survived, but …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… in the modern building. A number of humble school-houses still survive as at Heversham (1613) and Measand … survives a large number of 14th-century and later manor-houses, built on the normal medival plan with a central hall … other of the sides. The buttery-wing of several of these houses is entered by the usual doorways from the hall-screens …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… and apparently not laid out on any systematic plan. The houses were in some cases richly decorated, with mosaic … wealth which seems to have distinguished one or two of the houses at Castor and Chesterton may be recognized the … the Reformation, the buildings of the dissolved monastic houses, especially Ramsey Abbey, provided material for a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… some fifty in the south-western peninsula. Religious Houses S.E. Dorset is singularly lacking in monastic remains; indeed important religious houses here were always few. The only significant structural … of continental embroidery (Pl. 31). Nonconformist Meeting Houses The earliest Nonconformist building surviving in the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… are of flint with stone dressings, and in other manor houses with walls surviving from before the 16th century … cell of Tewkesbury, was founded c. 980 (Knowles, Religious Houses of Mediaeval England, 61), but it probably succeeded a … East Dorset retains two important mid 17th-century country houses: the new building at St. Giles's House [74], Wimborne …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… where both Clay and Greensand are plentiful, older houses are of squared Greensand rubble; brickwork was being … which is wholly of flint [48], and a few 16th-century houses in the same parish and in Fontmell Magna which have … kitchen etc.). Classification of House Plans Class J houses are often more modest than those of class F, having a …