The origins and development of English medieval townhouses operating commercially on two storeys
Although split-level townhouses have proved elusive on the continent, examples are known in the ZĂ€hringen towns of modern Switzerland: several of these towns have also developed elevated walkways. There can be little doubt that the split-level townhouse and its variants were the result of commercial pressure, and an insatiable demand, not found again after the early to mid fourteenth century, for numerous small-scale retail units and undercrofts.
Harris, Roland Benedict
Architecture, Medieval ; Architecture, Romanesque ; Row houses ; England
The origins and development of English medieval townhouses operating commercially on two storeys. Although split-level townhouses have proved elusive on the continent, examples are known in the ZĂ€hringen towns of modern Switzerland: several of these towns have also developed elevated walkways. There can be little doubt that the split-level townhouse and its variants were the result of commercial pressure, and an insatiable demand, not found again after the early to mid fourteenth century, for numerous small-scale retail units and undercrofts.
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