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The lobby-entry house: its origins and distribution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2016

Anthony Quiney
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This paper discusses the origin and diffusion of a particular type of very common small house that is characterized by what has come to be known as the lobby-entry plan. It was built in great numbers in the seventeenth century in much of England, and, though superseded by more modern types, continued to be built at least until the middle of this century. The subject, the history of vernacular architecture, is not usually associated with Howard Colvin. Nevertheless, in 1961 he published an account of Haunt Hill House at Weldon in Northamptonshire, a lobby-entry house that clearly shows how artificial the boundary between vernacular and polite architecture really is, if it exists at all; and the same is shown by some of the buildings discussed below.

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Section 6: A Miscellany of Building Types and Some Definitions
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Architectural History , Volume 27: Design and Practice in British Architecture , 1984 , pp. 456 - 466
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Copyright © Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain 1984

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