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What were traditional houses based on? |
•Builder agency •No building contract due to illiteracy •Basic rules •Pine and oak from the Baltic via the Hanse trade network. •Box framing everywhere, Crux only to the North West. |
Builder, materials from Hanse. |
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What was the trend with vernacular (Local community) buildings? |
•A hall, services and chamber which persisted for 300 years. •’Open hall’, hearth, dais, high table, little furniture, manuscript probate, solar, oriel (side chamber), service end and screen passage. •Many changed to farmhouses I.e. Gomeldon •Late management distinguishes reception/private rooms. |
Open hall, separation |
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What do moated sites tell us? |
I.e. Scotney Castle •Implies authority •Increases time to reach inner court •Suggests fidelity and sexual seclusion through female confinement. •Security from tension and crime I.e. Wharram Percy •A passing fashion? |
Security or status? |
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What areas have what sort of material? |
•Highland - stone •Lowland - timber •Central Belt - limestone |
Highland lowland and central belt |
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When were earth fast buildings used until? |
•Until 1200 eg. Cowdery’s Down, when ‘timber-framing’ which is pre-fabricated then transported, was introduced I.e. Gunde House. •Windows were rare, tiles were slate, lighting ‘cresset lamp’, ritual at Dinna Clerk - burned then abandoned. |
1200, Dinna Clerk |
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Unusual finds? |
Sea urchins Mummified cats Witch bottles At Greenwich. Dinna Clerks burnt house Brewing vessel at Churchill Graffiti in churches in unseen places |
Occult |
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Example of a vernacular open building turned into a farmhouse? |
•Many changed to farmhouses I.e. Gomeldon |
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Examples of vernacular buildings? |
Winchester Castle Hall Wealdon House Gainsborough Old Hall Lincolnshire: hall of 1460s. (High Status) Lincoln West Hall 13th c. (Blackening) Yardley Hastings (solar) Longthorpe tower, painted with religious imagery (solar) Stanton Harcourt (kitchen separate from house to prevent fires) Dartington Hall (screen passage at right angle). |
Winchester, Wealdon, Gainsborough, Lincoln, Yardley Hastings, Longthorpe Tower, SH, DH |
