The National Trust Book of the English House

by Clive Aslet (Author), Alan Powers (Author), Alan Powers (Author), Clive Aslet (Author), Alan Powers (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1985

  $3.25

• Used

  Paperback
  1991

  $3.25

  This book is part of a series of National Trust books that deal with room settings in which the objects are placed. The individual elements of an interior rather than its general layout - the fireplaces, chimney pieces, floors, ceilings, cornices, doors and panelling - are examined. It is in these areas, argues the author, that the achievements of England's craftsmen can be most clearly seen, for example, in the intricate wood-carving of the 17th century and the magnificent Stucco work of the 18th century, as well as in the more modest plasterwork of the Victorian family house. As with the other books in this series, the more modest houses will be dealt with as well as the grand.

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  Hardcover
  1990

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  Dr Geoffrey Beard's researches into the craftsmen who worked in the great English country houses are drawn together here and provide general readers with the essential facts about the interior of the historic house between 1500-1900. Wherever possible Dr Beard cites examples from the 200 or so properties open to visitors that are administered by the National Trust in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. He writes not only about the interiors at Hardwick Hall, Sudbury Hall and Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire, Petworth House, West Sussex and Saltram in Devon, but of those at such smaller richly decorated settings as Little Moreton Hall, Cheshire, Hanbury Hall, Hereford and Worcester and Pownend, Cumbria. He also discusses the interiors of many other historic houses, smaller vernacular houses, terrace and back-to-back houses.