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)
CENTURY. THE PORCH. When the hall was on theground floor the entrance to itwas protected by a porch, as atPenshurst; this is of stone witha groined vault, and a tower overit, but in houses of less import-ance a plain wooden porch wassufficient, the doors of which wereornamented with iron-work.… … Porch of a Hall,From MS. in the British Museum. 23rd. Also make In Winchester castle,two posts before the porch of our hall. 28th. To make a new door in the aisle of the hall (at Woodstock) nearthe south angle, with a good and decent porch; andto cause the three windows of the same hall to beraised…
Architecture, Domestic
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