The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . effected by the projecting eaves of theroof. In the north and west of England, where stone couldbe obtained at less cost than brick, and in the east of England,where brick, often imported from the Low Countries, was largelyemployed, the ordinary houses were built in those materials. 8l2 HOUSE and in consequence of their excellent construction many housesof the i6th and 17th centuries have remained in good preservationdown to the present day; they are found in the Colswoldsgenerally, and (among sma
The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . effected by the projecting eaves of theroof. In the north and west of England, where stone couldbe obtained at less cost than brick, and in the east of England,where brick, often imported from the Low Countries, was largelyemployed, the ordinary houses were built in those materials. 8l2 HOUSE and in consequence of their excellent construction many housesof the i6th and 17th centuries have remained in good preservationdown to the present day; they are found in the Colswoldsgenerally, and (among small towns) at Broadway in Worcester-shire and (of brick) throughout Essex and Suffolk. Among thelarger half-timber houses built in the ijth and 16th centuries,mention may be made of Bramhall Hall, near Manchester;Speke Hall, near Liverpool (see Plate III., fig. 10); The Oaks,West Bromwich; and Moreton Old Hall, Cheshire, one of themost elaborate of the series (see Plate III., fig. n). On the borders of the Rhine, as at Bacharach and Rhense,and throughout Germany, half-timber houses of the most.
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