The English home / by Banister Flight Fletcher, and Herbert Phillips Fletcher; with an introduction by His Grace the Duke of Argyll, K.T., with 366 illustrations.

  • Sir Banister Fletcher
Date:
1910
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Credit: The English home / by Banister Flight Fletcher, and Herbert Phillips Fletcher; with an introduction by His Grace the Duke of Argyll, K.T., with 366 illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It also became the custom to provide a Scullery (.scute liar ium), Bakehouse (pis Irina), Brewhouse, Dairy and Mill, while granaries and outbuildings became more numerous. Stables were sometimes built apart round a special court or stable yard. Furniture—Original furniture of the period is rarely seen, and our knowledge of it is obtained principally from illustrated manuscripts. Chairs were not com- monly used, but window recesses had stone benches on each side such as still exist in college rooms at the Universities, and these were the favourite nooks and corners of the apartments. Tables were principally formed of boards and trestles, and chests were also used for this purpose. The floors were still covered with straw, rushes or matting (see pp. 10 and 15), carpets not having yet come into general use. Examples—Wolterton Manor-house at East Bar- sham (Norfolk) is very complete as an example of the development of this period. It has a fine detached gatehouse, while the main building contains the Porch, Screens and Hall with Bay Windows. The family rooms are reached from the dais and the Kitchen and Offices from the Screens. South Wraxall Manor-house and Great Chalfield (both in Wiltshire) are fine examples of convenient dwelling- houses erected in a peaceful county, with scarcely any attempt at fortification, although the latter house is surrounded by a moat. Oxburgh Hall (Norfolk), a moated quadrangular example,' Haddon Hall (Derbyshire), with a double 1 See Plate 131 of A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method (51!] Edition) for a plan of this house.