The Romans in England--Their Villas and Houses--Ordinary Plan of a Roman House--Method of Building--The Saxons--Their Style of Building; they probably occupied Roman Houses--A Saxon Hall--Houses of Winchester and London in the Saxon Period--Decoration of Buildings--Romanesque Style of Architecture introduced during the Saxon Period--Drawings in Saxon MSS., their Character and Value as Architectural Evidence--The Greek, or Byzantine School; its Influence on Saxon Art--Antiquity of Chimneys; None at Rome in the Fourteenth Century--Character of the Military Buildings of the Saxons--The Castles of Coningsburgh and Bamborough later than the Saxon Period--Arundel, the only Castle said to have been standing in the time of the Confessor--Norman Castles--Domestic Architecture of the Normans--Stone Quarries--Use of Plaster--Bricks and Tiles--Brickmaking, its Antiquity in England--Masons and other Workmen--Glazing--Iron Works in England--Architectural Designs of the Middle Ages, how made--Working Moulds of Masons, &c. 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. CHAPTER II.--EXISTING REMAINS.