Author: Earl A. Beesley
Publisher: ABRAMS
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 9780810916739
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Views of eight historic estates in England are complemented by brief historical backgrounds of each house
Author: Penny Hicks
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780749509132
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Author: Lydia Greeves
Publisher: National Trust
Published: 2021-04-29
Total Pages: 1047
ISBN-13: 1911657364
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This captivating book, fully revised and updated and featuring more NT houses than ever before, is a guide to some of the greatest architectural treasures of Britain, encompassing both interior and exterior design. This new edition is fully revised and updated and includes entries for new properties including: Acorn Bank, Claife Viewing Station, Cushendun, Cwmdu, Fen Cottage, The Firs (birthplace of Edward Elgar), Hawker's Hut, Lizard Wireless Station, Totternhoe Knolls and Trelissick. The houses covered include spectacular mansions such as Petworth House and Waddesdon Manor, and more lowly dwellings such as the Birmingham Back to Backs and estate villages like Blaise Hamlet, near Bristol. In addition to houses, the book also covers fascinating buildings as diverse as churches, windmills, dovecotes, castles, follies, barns and even pubs. The book also acts as an overview of the country's architectural history, with every period covered, from the medieval stronghold of Bodiam Castle to the clean-lined Modernism of The Homewood. Teeming with stories of the people who lived and worked in these buildings: wealthy collectors (Charles Wade at Snowshill), captains of industry (William Armstrong at Cragside), prime ministers (Winston Churchill at Chartwell) and pop stars (John Lennon at Mendips). Written in evocative, imaginative prose and illustrated with glorious images from the National Trust's photographic library, this book is an essential guide to the built heritage of England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Author: Ben Cowell
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2024-05-21
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1837650586
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Alfred Willis
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9782884491679
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Author: John Julius Norwich
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 766
ISBN-13: 9780393057409
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Offers alphabetical listings of more than two thousand locations, including gardens, historic houses, museums, and natural sites.
Author: Kate Retford
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2019-03-07
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 1501337300
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For every great country house of the Georgian period, there was usually also a town house. Chatsworth, for example, the home of the Devonshires, has officially been recognised as one of the country's favourite national treasures - but most of its visitors know little of Devonshire House, which the family once owned in the capital. In part, this is because town houses were often leased, rather than being passed down through generations as country estates were. But, most crucially, many London town houses, including Devonshire House, no longer exist, having been demolished in the early twentieth century. This book seeks to place centre-stage the hugely important yet hitherto overlooked town houses of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, exploring the prime position they once occupied in the lives of families and the nation as a whole. It explores the owners, how they furnished and used these properties, and how their houses were judged by the various types of visitor who gained access.
Author: Tessa Murdoch
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780571163380
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Boughton House in Northamptonshire is a house of contrasts. Its magnificent, and at the same time, formal exterior in the French style gives little hint of the rambling Tudor manor house embedded within. Involvement with the law and politics at the highest level generated the wealth of its founders and builders, but enlightened artistic patronage and a strong aesthetic sense have been characteristic of many generations of the Dukes of Montagu and of Buccleuch since the 17th century. This book looks at the house and its furnishings.
Author: John Julius Norwich
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 712
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Treasures of Britain is a valuable guide, written by experts, to the country's very best architecture, art and natural beauty. In over 2,000 alphabetical entries, a prestigious team of contributors describes the rich heritage of mediaeval churches and cathedrals, historic houses and castles, outstanding museums and galleries, stunning gardens and superb scenery.