At the close of the Civil War there was an acute housing shortage in the city. Hundreds of homes in the suburbs had been flattened, and even within the walls many had been damaged or destroyed. The 1650s saw what must have been a housing boom, which continued for a generation.

The Elizabethan country house at Hayes Barton	Tudor House, Exe Island	Simon Snow's house	Door at Adelaide Court, St Sidwells
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