| TUDOR 1485 - 1603 |
Tudor buildings can be identified
from typical features illustrated in these listed buildings
Use this glossary
from the 'Looking at Buildings' website to check the meanings of unfamiliar
words.
During the Tudor period many small homes and large country houses were
built. Exposed timber framing was still the norm in those areas without
easily available building stone. The use of brick increased and windows
became larger. After the end of the Wars of the Roses defence was no
longer as important and emphasis was increasingly put on domestic comfort
and displaying of wealth through architecture. |
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Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Lavenham,
Suffolk fifteenth/sixteenth century
Church built by the wealthy wool merchants of Lavenham.
Features include; richly ornamented; very high tower; castellated
parapets; Perpendicular windows
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Berkeley Arms, Church Street, Tewkesbury, late fifteenth/early
sixteenth century
A town centre building, originally a warehouse. The overhanging jetty
was more common early in the period especially in towns. Features
include; timber framing to the upper stories with plaster panels
between; casement windows on top floor divided by mullions [dividing
bars]; continuous row of casement windows below; both are leaded;
top floor jetty; ground floor area beneath jetty has been filled
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Bunyan's Mead, High Street, Elstow, Bedfordshire, sixteenth
century
A pair of cottages showing increased use of brick, in this example
used on the gable end to fill in between the timbers instead of
wattle and daub.
Features include; timber framing with plaster infill on the front
and brick on the side; casement [side opening] windows; two stories
throughout. |
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Snitterton Manor farmhouse, South Darley,
Derbyshire, sixteenth century
Part of a manor house, the wing on the right hand
side is a later addition. Building in stone became more common,
particularly where wood was scarce.
Features include; rubble stone; mullioned windows;
large chimney stack; local stone slabbed roof; decorative drip moulds
above windows. |
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Micklethwaite, Victoria Street, Bingley, West Yorkshire,
late sixteenth/early seventeenth century
Manor house in dressed stone with prominent windows.
Features include; dressed stone; leaded, mullioned windows, those
on the top floor are arched; raised parapet on gable end. |
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Bottom Lane, Sulhamstead, Berkshire, late
sixteenth/early seventeenth century.
A timber framed yeoman's house with an H shaped plan.
Features include; timber frame with brick infilling;
large chimney stack with separate shafts[on left]; mullion windows;
gables.
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Moss Hall, Audlem, Cheshire, early seventeenth
century
An example of an impressive gentleman's house which has been very
little altered.
Features include; half timbered; design based on the
letter E with the 2 outer wings and the central porch section making
the shape; large brick chimneys with several tall cylindrical chimney
pots; gables; excessive use of timber for decoration. |
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