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Taylor, 1977, 26). It is perhaps better described as a good example of the transi-
tion of the Artisan Mannerist style, employing post-fired brickwork for enrich-
ments, from the earlier Tudor Gothic 'cut and rubbed' work, prior to the later,
and more refined, classical use of the true Dutch style of employing gauged
brickwork.
The 13 Building Articles for the properties in the parish of St Paul, Convent
Garden, in London, emphasise this fashion for post-fired worked brickwork of
the second quarter of the seventeenth century. 'The revised articles required the
house fronts to be built of 'hewed or well rub'd brickes…' (Sheppard, 1970, 30).
Cromwell House in Highgate, London (1637) (despite poorly applied and
inappropriate modern re-pointing) has a delightful central first-floor win-
dow opening, set with a lugged architrave, with volutes and scrolled consoles
(Fig. 33). This would appear to indicate some degree of in situ carving. At
Tyttenhanger Park in St Albans (Hertfordshire) (1655) (another victim of mod-
ern re-pointing) is a later and more finely executed example of the same cut and
rubbed central detailing to the first-floor window (Fig. 34). The bricks for this
enrichment are of a better quality for cutting and rubbing than those employed
at Cromwell House, 18 years earlier. It is not impossible that the detailing for
both windows was designed and executed by the same craftsmen. Colvin (1995,
656) suggests that the author of Tyttenhanger might be the master bricklayer
and artisan architect, Peter Mills, discussed below, stating:
Tyttenhanger is a brick house which Mills may well have built, and the resem-
blance's between Wisbech Castle and Thorpe Hall are so striking as to suggest
that he was Thurloe's architect.
Figure 33
Cut and rubbed
'lugged' window
detailing at Cromwell
House, London, 1637.
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