. The English house, how to judge its periods and styles. three things may be inferred with confi-dence. The first is that flues were very uncommonin London walls during the Norman periodâ, from 1066 to about 1189 ; and the second,that only the best houses and shops were builtwith two floors. Twelfth-century fireplaceswere put in the solars as a rule, and a solar wasa private loft or chamber on the second was the usual position ; and documents ofa later date refer to it as a loft. The thirdpoint is that cook-shops and other timbercabins were sheds one story high, divided intoa b
. The English house, how to judge its periods and styles. three things may be inferred with confi-dence. The first is that flues were very uncommonin London walls during the Norman periodâ, from 1066 to about 1189 ; and the second,that only the best houses and shops were builtwith two floors. Twelfth-century fireplaceswere put in the solars as a rule, and a solar wasa private loft or chamber on the second was the usual position ; and documents ofa later date refer to it as a loft. The thirdpoint is that cook-shops and other timbercabins were sheds one story high, divided intoa bower and a hall. A fire, or a cooking-stove,was placed in the middle of each hall, with anopening in the roof above for smoke ; and hencethe danger that bakers and ale-wives ran atnight when they kept up their fires with litter,that threw out sparks by the thousand {seep. 66). Then, as to the position of a fire-place and flue in rich houses, they were not putin party-walls, because that, in some measure,would have defeated the purpose to be served by. aiDOX CAaTLE I ^L J ^ -^ -^ > ,J til iX-L,â V \m f-pfrr-ii
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