Some account of domestic architecture in England, from Richard II to Henry VIII (1859)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford London, J. H. and J. Parker · leaf 55
re no stone is to be had, and Brick is thematerial of the country, as in the Eastern counties,we have very fine mansions of brick-work of the fif-teenth and sixteenth centuries, whatever may have beenthe case at an earlier period. It is probable, indeed,that brick was never entirely disused from… … PARAPET. LAYER HARNEY, ESSEX. GENERAL REMARKS. 23 brick mansions of the time of Henry vii. and HenryViii., many of them in very perfect preservation, and thebrick-work is made so ornamental that it may well beconsidered as competing with stone. Such houses asCompton Winyates, Warwickshire;…
Architecture, Domestic
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