Some Account of Domestic Architecture in England
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: March 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780766142411
Subjects: Architecture; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Domestic; International Architecture - British
First sentence: THE houses of the middle ages were always well adapted for the purposes for which they were intended, and so long as it was necessary to support a large body of retainers to defend the building, or to maintain the dignity of the family, it would be difficult to contrive a more convenient arrangement than that which we find adopted by our ancestors at the commencement of the fifteenth century.