Some account of domestic architecture in England from Edward I to Richard II, with notices of foreign examples and numerous illustrations of existing remains from original drawings (1882)
carried round an angle of the build- House with external staircast).From MS. is the British Muaeom. ing, as at Meare, Somersetshire. The illustrations in manuscripts frequently contain repre-sentations of such external staircases, sometimes protectedby wooden porches or pent-houses. See Aydon… … As usual the Liberate Rolls contain the most minutedirections respecting the staircase and pent-house, for in-stance, 24th and 25th H. ni. To renovate the stair before the outer gate of thetower of Rochester castle, and make a cer-tain pent-house above the stair aforesaid.— To cause to be made a…
Architecture, Domestic
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