Early renaissance architecture in England; a historical & descriptive account of the Tudor, Elizabethan & Jacobean periods, 1500-1625, for the use of students and others (1901)
Gotch, J. Alfred (John Alfred), 1852-1942 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 137
of the time to havetaken such a way of expressingloyalty, only in that case weshould have expected to findfewer plans of the H variety, hand more of the other ; but as §a matter of fact there are few,if any, houses with a perfectlystraight front such as the backof the rn demands. At Barlborough, in… … 49.—Barlborough Hall, Derbyshire.Plan of Principal Floor (1583). Instead of extending itself along the ground, the house provides its accommodationby extending itself vertically, and the kitchen and servantsrooms are placed in the basement. This was an idea intro-duced, it is said, from Italy, but…
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