The Growth of the English House / A short history of its architectural development from 1100 to 1800
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- The Growth of the ENGLISH HOUSE
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- CHAPTER I. Introductory—The Norman Keep.
- CHAPTER II. The Keep Described.
- CHAPTER III. The Fortified Manor House of the Thirteenth Century—The Dominance of the Hall.
- CHAPTER IV. The Course of Mediæval Building in the Fourteenth Century.
- CHAPTER V. The Later Manor House of the Middle Ages.
- CHAPTER VI. Mediæval Domestic Features—Doorways, Windows, Fireplaces, Chimneys, Roofs and Ceilings, Staircases.
- CHAPTER VII. Early Sixteenth Century—Coming of the Italian Influence.
- CHAPTER VIII. Late Sixteenth Century—Symmetry in Planning.
- CHAPTER IX. Elizabethan and Jacobean Houses—Exteriors.
- CHAPTER X. Elizabethan and Jacobean Houses—interiors.
- CHAPTER XI. Seventeenth Century—Personal Design—Transitional Treatment.
- CHAPTER XII. Classic Detail Established—Influence of the Amateurs.
- CHAPTER XIII. Eighteenth-Century Exteriors—The Palladian Style.
- CHAPTER XIV. Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries—Interiors—Details and Features.
- CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF CASTLES AND HOUSES.
- GLOSSARY.
- INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS.
- INDEX TO TEXT.
- FOOTNOTES:
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