CHAPTER I.--TWELFTH CENTURY.

General Remarks--Imperfect Character of existing Remains of the Twelfth Century--Materials for the History of Domestic Architecture; their Nature--General Plan of Houses at this Date--Halls--Other Apartments of Ordinary Houses--Bedchamber, Kitchen, Larder, &c.--King's Houses at Clarendon and other Places--Hall, always the Chief Feature of a Norman House--Alexander Necham, his Description of a House--Plan of Norman Halls--Their Roofs--Situation of other Apartments relatively to the Hall--Kitchens--Cooking in the Open Air--Bayeux Tapestry--Remains of a Norman House at Appleton, Berks--Fences, Walls, &c.--Some Norman Houses built in the form of a Parallelogram, and of Two Stories--Boothby Pagnell, Lincolnshire--Christ Church, Hants--Jews' House at Lincoln--Moyses' Hall, Bury St. Edmund's--Staircases, Internal and External--External Norman Stair at Canterbury--Houses at Southampton--Building Materials--Use of Lead for Roofs--English Lead exported to France--Style of Norman Roofs--Metal Work; Hinges, Locks, Nail-heads, &c.--Gloucester celebrated for its Iron Manufactures--External Decoration of Buildings--Windows--Glazing--Fire-places--Kitchens open in the Roof--Hostelry of the Prior of Lewes--Internal Walls Plastered--Furniture of Houses, Tapestry, &c--Floors generally of Wood--Character London Houses in the Twelfth Century--Assize of 1189 regulating Buildings in London--Assize of the Year 1212 relating to the same Subject--- Majority of London Houses chiefly of Wood and Thatched--Wages of Workmen--Cookshops on Thames Side--Chimneys not mentioned in the London Assizes, &c.