over the centuries. Those of fifteenth – and sixteenth-century date often back onto a river range, as at the Old House, Shrewsbury. The second group of towns have timber-framed houses, still with an open hall (a feature to be found in almost all types of town houses until the sixteenth century not only in the […]
Category: Timber-Framed, Buildings of England
Church Farm, Church Minshall, Cheshire
the rear lateral wall with the stairs elsewhere. Often it was situated in the entrance lobby, sometimes but not always adjacent to the stack itself, but in the two-roomed unit it was generally in the hall, while in those houses with three rooms it was commonly in the service room. In most of these cases […]
Whitehall, Cheam, Greater London
storeys throughout. It still retained all the medieval features, with the hall, although no longer open to the roof, remaining the principal room. Above this was a great chamber with an open truss formed above. This chamber frequently referred to as the upper hall, was often treated with all the lavishness of decoration which was […]
Bayleaf Farmhouse
given special decorative treatment, with the struts and windbraces frequently cusped. In the North the roofs were of the king-post construction with little decoration, probably due to the fact that the open hearth was never a feature in northern England and that the firehood, situated at the lower end of the hall, drew the occupants […]
Goodramgate, York
”go 149. Pullens Farm, Horsmonden, Kent ished’ Wealden houses were frequently used in towns and in particular in terraced houses, like the group previously mentioned at Battle. Unlike the aisled house, in the later open-hall house the central open truss was rarely placed centrally; one bay – sometimes the upper bay, sometimes the lower one […]