Function and Site

Brief description of the characteristics of Norwich's 214 pre-1700 houses is followed by an analysis of eight of the city's brick-built undercrofts. More than eighty domestic examples are known: it is suggested that they were built during the 15th century to provide level, fireproof foundations for timber-framed houses and that they were used for storage. The plans of two well-known buildings, the Bridewell and Strangers' Hall, are re-considered in an attempt to show the effects of site constraint and the limitations of classification by type. A third large building, the Old Barge, is compared with them; and the paper concludes with a discussion of the location, plans and interpretation of a small number of possibly representative middle-sized buildings

Architectural engineering · Brick · Civil engineering · Constraint (computer-aided design · Function (biology · Interpretation (philosophy · Computer Science · Engineering · Historical Architecture and Urbanism · History

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  Adam Longcroft•Vernacular Architecture•2006

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• The Interpretation of Vernacular Architecture

  Eric Mercer, Barbara Hutton et al.•Vernacular Architecture•1984

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• Early Fabric in Historic Towns

  Rebecca Lane, Rebecca A Lane•Vernacular Architecture•2017

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• Plan-Forms in Smaller Post-Medieval Houses

  Adam Longcroft•Vernacular Architecture•2002

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• Post-Medieval Britain in Periodic Literature in 1986

  John R Kenyon•Post-Medieval Archaeology•1987

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• The interpretation of urban buildings

  Chris King•World Archaeology•2009

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• The view from the street

  Open Access•Matthew Jenkins•Urban History•2016

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• Closure' and the urban Great Rebuilding in early modern Norwich

  Chris King•Post-Medieval Archaeology•2010

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• The Cow Tower, Norwich

  A D Saunders•Medieval Archaeology•1985

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