by the use of diagonal struts forming lozenges within lozenges with none of the concave cusped lozenges and other elaborate designs to be found except for the quatrefoils in the porch. In Staffordshire one can cite Broughton Hall of 1637, the most spectacular black-and-white building in the county, made even more so in 1926-39 when […]
Category: Timber-Framed, Buildings of England
Little Morton Hall, Cheshire
north-west corner was probably the principal solar, the rooms beneath being the buttery, pantry and kitchen linked by the screens-passage to the hall. Further rooms must have stood to the east of the hall but these were undoubtedly remodelled when the parlour and withdrawing-room were built. In the mid-sixteenth century the now unfashionable great hall […]
Speke Hall, Merseyside
upper end of the hall was the high table, lit by an oriel window and protected by a coved canopy above and on either side by screens from the doorways to the parlour and chamber wing. Leading from the screens-passage where the customary doorways to the kitchen, buttery and pantry. However, in most cases this […]
Rowley’s Mansion, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
bays, each having a projecting bay-window to the two principal upper storeys. The centre two bays were Ireland’s own house, flanked on either side by a single-bay house. Of slightly later date is Rowley’s House (163), equally large but less flamboyant. In a number of English towns, rows of small houses, each standing on a […]
Former Merchant house, Thetford, Norfolk
the neighbouring courtyard or perhaps from a window placed in the’ side walls, but this was practicable only if the adjoining house was shallow enough or low enough to avoid blocking them in. In many cases, the subsequent rebuilding of the neighbouring premises would have excluded any light to the hall, and there is evidence […]