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British architectural styles : an easy reference guide / Trevor Yorke.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yorke, Trevor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Great Britain--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Architecture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (65 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newbury, England : Countryside Books, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Here is a compact and useful guide, filled with detailed and original drawings, to help put a date to the variety of period buildings we see around us. It covers an immense range of structures and styles from 1500 to 1950. In addition, there is a glossary of architectural terms and a historical time chart. The book will prove an invaluable companion whether visiting grand houses open to the public or simply strolling around the streets of villages, towns and cities.
- Contents:
- Tudor house style, 1485-1560
- Elizabethan and Jacobean house style, 1560-1660
- Restoration house style, 1660-1714
- Georgian house style, 1715-1790
- Regency house style, 1790-1830
- Victorian house style, 1830-1900
- Edwardian house style, 1900-1918
- 1930s house style, 1918-1939.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781846748288
- 1846748283
- 9781846748295
- 1846748291
- OCLC:
- 911000996
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