THE FIRST SIGNS OF TRANSITION 



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appeared almost entirely after the advent of the sash-window 

 in the last quarter of the seventeenth century. 



In the meantime, greater attention was paid to the cornices 

 which made the circuit of the buildings ; more especially was 

 the topmost cornice emphasised that from which the roof 

 sprang. The general proportions of the building were more 

 closely studied, and in particular the proportion of the window 

 openings to the plain wall space. 



Broadfield Hall, in Hertfordshire (Fig. 3), illustrates the 

 advance along these lines. There are no wines and no sables. 



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FIG. 3. Broadfield Hall, Hertfordshire. 



From a Drawing by Buckler, 1832. 



Stone mullions are still retained ; a bold cornice marks each 

 story, the boldest being that on which the hipped roof rests. 

 The flues are massed in two large stacks, and their existence is 

 duly acknowledged, no attempt being made, as was sometimes 

 the case in later times, to conceal them among irrelevant orna- 

 ment. The dormer windows rise from the roof, and are no 

 longer placed in portions of the main wall carried up for their 

 reception. The unbroken cornice at the eaves necessitated this 

 change. The old love of light still shows itself in the size of 

 the windows, which are not yet subordinated to the claims of 

 proportion. 



