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The hall house is a type of vernacular house traditional in many parts of England, Wales, Ireland and lowland Scotland, as well as northern Europe, during the Middle Ages, centring on a hall. Usually timber-framed , some high status examples were built in stone.
The hall house is a type of vernacular house traditional in many parts of England, Wales, Ireland and lowland Scotland, as well as northern Europe, during the Middle Ages, centring on a hall. Usually timber-framed, some high status examples were built in stone. Most, but not all, were built for domestic use. Unaltered hall houses are almost ...
Floor plan of a basic Virginia-style hall-and-parlor house. An example from the colonial period of the United States, Resurrection Manor, near Hollywood, Maryland, was built c. 1660 and demolished 2002. A hall-and-parlor house is a type of vernacular house found in early-modern to 19th century England, as well as in colonial North America. [1]
The Wealden hall house is a type of vernacular medieval timber-framed hall house traditional in the south east of England. Typically built for a yeoman , it is most common in Kent (hence "Wealden" for the once densely forested Weald ) and the east of Sussex but has also been built elsewhere. [ 1 ]
Stone Hall is a historic home in Cockeysville, Maryland, United States. It is a manor house set on a 248-acre (1.00 km 2 ) estate that was originally part of a 4,200-acre (17 km 2 ) tract called Nicholson's Manor.
Holkham Hall (/ ˈ h oʊ k ə m / or / ˈ h ɒ l k ə m / [1]) is an 18th-century country house near the village of Holkham, Norfolk, England, constructed in the Neo-Palladian style for the 1st Earl of Leicester (of the fifth creation of the title) by the architect William Kent, aided by Lord Burlington.
The house, which has a 17th-century core, is in red brick and stone and has a band and a hipped slate roof. There are three storeys and an attic, and seven bays . On the front is a stone Roman Doric portico , the windows on the front are casements , and elsewhere there are three-light mullioned windows.
Dorlestone Hall was a manor house at Darlaston, a locality also known as Dorlestone, near Stone, Staffordshire, England, on the Trent. The Hall was built prior to the Reformation . Prior to 1503, the Hall was leased by Jacobus Colyar, who had probably fought in Spain during the Reconquista, as he was given a letters patent with symbols of ...