Gothic Architecture

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d increasing favour as a building material. From the late thirteenth century, if not before, individual houses of the wealthier sort were linked and reorganized as farmsteads.
The Goltho’s house in Lincolnshire, rebuilt in the late thirteenth century and abandoned about a century later, compared with earlier houses on the same village site, all of much flimsier construction, was built to last. It was 30 by 14 feet, its to rooms one of which was heated by a hooded corner hearth- were divided by a central cross passage. The timber houses in a stone less region, rested on life prolonging pad stone. The substantial timber frames-two and sometimes three bays in length-were each of these villages the associated finds suggest life-styles of comfort and modest affluence.
Most people lived in log or stone houses roofed with thatch. In the houses of the common people, the stonewalls were often bare or covered with rough plaster. After 1400, tapestries were used in the castles of both France a...