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The adaptive re-use of English monastic buildings in the second half of the 16th century has been relatively little studied. With a few notable exceptions, it has been generally assumed that most former monastic sites were simply plundered for their building materials. Two new approaches suggest that frequently this was not so. First, by examining in detail all the monastic houses of a single county - in this case Hertfordshire - which survived until the Dissolution, and, secondly, by treating the surviving architectural evidence as a primary source, it can be shown that much medieval fabric...

By analyzing the surviving physical evidence of Hertfordshires former monasteries it can be demonstrated that, rather than simply being plundered for their building materials, many of these structures were converted to other uses after the Dissolution. Hertfordshires proximity to London and the desire for a country seat made it particularly attractive to the gentry and nobility, and from c.1540 to 1550 several of the first generation of post-Dissolution owners of former monasteries converted their new acquisitions into substantial houses. Lower down the social scale continuing uncertainties...