10 Dwight, Travels, I, 368.
1 The best introduction to English vernacular architecture is Eric Mercer, English Vernacular Houses (London, 1975); see also R. W. Brunskill, Timber Building in Britain (London, 1985); and John and Jane Penoyre, Houses in the Landscape: A Regional Study of Vernacular Building Styles in England and Wales (London, 1978); more specialized works include C. A. Hewett, “Timber-Building in Essex,” AMST, n.s. 9 (1961), 32-56; O. Rackham, “Grandie House: On the Quantities of Timber in Certain East Anglian Buildings in Relation to Local Supplies,” VA 13 (1982), 39-47; H. C. Hughes, “Some Notes on the Character and Dating of Domestic Architecture in the Cambridge District,” CASP 37 (1935-36), 1-23; F. W. Steer, Farm and Cottage Inventories of Mid-Essex, 1635-1749 (Colchester, 1950); F. A. Gurling, “Suffolk Chimneys of the Sixteenth Century,” SIAP 22 (1934-36), 104-7.
Specially helpful are careful modern studies of demolished buildings in the east of England; D. G. Macleod, “Cottages on the East Side of Rochford Market Square,” EJ 1 (1966), 25-37; and Ian G. Robertson, “The Archaeology of the Ml Motorway in Essex, 1970-1975,” EJ 10 (1975), 68.
On New England architecture see Abbott L. Cummings, The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1623-1675 (Cambridge, 1979); R. G. St. George, “Set Thine House in Order …,” in New England Begins: The Seventeenth Century (3 vols., Boston, 1982), II, 159-351; and Anthony Garvan, “The New England Plain Style,” CSSH 3 (1960), 106-22.