Author: Michael Hill
Publisher: Spire Books
ISBN: 9781904965497
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A splendidly comprehensive account of the country houses in the western half of Dorset, which accompanies the author's previous acclaimed volume on the houses of the eastern part of the county. West Dorset presents a contrast with its intimate valleys and hidden houses. Major houses include Milton Abbey, built alongside a vast medieval monastic church and a rare example of Sir William Chambers' Gothick style. Its chief rival is the startlingly original Sherborne Castle, left incomplete by Sir Walter Raleigh at his execution. More than 40 further equally entrancing major houses are explained and more than 80 others follow in a comprehensive gazetteer. It is richly illustrated with both historic illustrations and sumptuous colour photographs taken especially for the book. This is for anyone who loves the beautiful county of Dorset or is entranced by English country houses. Michael Hill is a widely-recognised expert on country-house architecture and is the reviser of the Buildings of England volume for Dorset.
West Dorset Country Houses
Author: Michael Hill
Publisher: Spire Books
ISBN: 9781904965497
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A splendidly comprehensive account of the country houses in the western half of Dorset, which accompanies the author's previous acclaimed volume on the houses of the eastern part of the county. West Dorset presents a contrast with its intimate valleys and hidden houses. Major houses include Milton Abbey, built alongside a vast medieval monastic church and a rare example of Sir William Chambers' Gothick style. Its chief rival is the startlingly original Sherborne Castle, left incomplete by Sir Walter Raleigh at his execution. More than 40 further equally entrancing major houses are explained and more than 80 others follow in a comprehensive gazetteer. It is richly illustrated with both historic illustrations and sumptuous colour photographs taken especially for the book. This is for anyone who loves the beautiful county of Dorset or is entranced by English country houses. Michael Hill is a widely-recognised expert on country-house architecture and is the reviser of the Buildings of England volume for Dorset.
Publisher: Spire Books
ISBN: 9781904965497
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A splendidly comprehensive account of the country houses in the western half of Dorset, which accompanies the author's previous acclaimed volume on the houses of the eastern part of the county. West Dorset presents a contrast with its intimate valleys and hidden houses. Major houses include Milton Abbey, built alongside a vast medieval monastic church and a rare example of Sir William Chambers' Gothick style. Its chief rival is the startlingly original Sherborne Castle, left incomplete by Sir Walter Raleigh at his execution. More than 40 further equally entrancing major houses are explained and more than 80 others follow in a comprehensive gazetteer. It is richly illustrated with both historic illustrations and sumptuous colour photographs taken especially for the book. This is for anyone who loves the beautiful county of Dorset or is entranced by English country houses. Michael Hill is a widely-recognised expert on country-house architecture and is the reviser of the Buildings of England volume for Dorset.
East Dorset Country Houses
Author: Michael Hill
Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company
ISBN: 9781904965466
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A superbly illustrated thoroughly researched and illustrated account of country houses in the eastern half of the county of Dorset. ItThis publication contains numerous plans architectural drawings, information on owners architects and craftsmen, and covers the whole social and historical background which lead to their creation of these houses.
Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company
ISBN: 9781904965466
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A superbly illustrated thoroughly researched and illustrated account of country houses in the eastern half of the county of Dorset. ItThis publication contains numerous plans architectural drawings, information on owners architects and craftsmen, and covers the whole social and historical background which lead to their creation of these houses.
Dorset Country Houses
Author: Barton Hill History Group
Publisher: Phillimore
ISBN: 9781860775345
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Dorset Country Houses
Publisher: Phillimore
ISBN: 9781860775345
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Dorset Country Houses
Dorset Country Houses Volume Two
Author: Michael Hill
Publisher: Phillimore
ISBN: 9781860776854
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Dorset Country Houses Volume two
Publisher: Phillimore
ISBN: 9781860776854
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Dorset Country Houses Volume two
Some Dorset Country Houses
Author: David Cecil
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780946159314
Category : Country homes
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780946159314
Category : Country homes
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
Country Houses of Dorset
Author: Arthur Oswald
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
West Country Historic Houses and Their Families: Dorset, Wiltshire and North Sommerset
Author: Eric R. Delderfield
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dwellings
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dwellings
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
West Country Historic Houses and Their Families
Author: Eric Raymond Delderfield
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country homes
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country homes
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
The British Country House Revival
Author: Ben Cowell
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1837650586
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Fifty years ago, the future for country houses in Britain looked bleak. The Victoria & Albert Museum's exhibition The Destruction of the Country House, which opened in October 1974, charted the loss of over a thousand country houses in the preceding century. The makers of the exhibition warned that history could be "about to repeat itself" because of the threats besetting mansion properties, principally from higher taxation. Houses faced the prospect of having to be stripped of their collections and sold for use as offices, hotels, or hospitals, with their parks and gardens turned into golf clubs. Government might afford to save just a handful of the most significant of these places, working in tandem with charities such as the National Trust. The rest would be consigned to history. This book traces the history of country houses in Britain, from the Destruction exhibition to the present day. The wave of country house losses anticipated in 1974 never actually happened. Instead, over the next five decades Britain's country houses experienced a renaissance. Fiscal rules changed in the mid-1970s to make it easier for owners to hold on to their assets. Economic improvements in the 1980s and 1990s allowed many houses and estates to develop profitable commercial businesses. All of this was achieved only after dedicated campaigning from heritage organisations in support of the country house cause. The book argues that a new accord is needed today, to recognise and value the ongoing, if increasingly contested, contribution of country houses to British life and culture in the twenty-first century.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1837650586
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Fifty years ago, the future for country houses in Britain looked bleak. The Victoria & Albert Museum's exhibition The Destruction of the Country House, which opened in October 1974, charted the loss of over a thousand country houses in the preceding century. The makers of the exhibition warned that history could be "about to repeat itself" because of the threats besetting mansion properties, principally from higher taxation. Houses faced the prospect of having to be stripped of their collections and sold for use as offices, hotels, or hospitals, with their parks and gardens turned into golf clubs. Government might afford to save just a handful of the most significant of these places, working in tandem with charities such as the National Trust. The rest would be consigned to history. This book traces the history of country houses in Britain, from the Destruction exhibition to the present day. The wave of country house losses anticipated in 1974 never actually happened. Instead, over the next five decades Britain's country houses experienced a renaissance. Fiscal rules changed in the mid-1970s to make it easier for owners to hold on to their assets. Economic improvements in the 1980s and 1990s allowed many houses and estates to develop profitable commercial businesses. All of this was achieved only after dedicated campaigning from heritage organisations in support of the country house cause. The book argues that a new accord is needed today, to recognise and value the ongoing, if increasingly contested, contribution of country houses to British life and culture in the twenty-first century.
Some Dorset Manor Houses
Author: Sidney Heath
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description