Lost Country Houses Of Norfolk

Author : Tom Williamson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783270729
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Country Houses of Norfolk written by Tom Williamson and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norfolk is a county sadly rich in lost country houses; this account and gazetteer offer a comprehensive account of them.

Author : Tom Williamson
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781783276998
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Country Houses of Norfolk written by Tom Williamson and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2022-06-24 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norfolk is a county sadly rich in "lost" country houses; this account and gazetteer offer a comprehensive account of them.

Author : J. Raven
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137520779
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Mansions written by J. Raven and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-29 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative volume stimulates debate about lost 'heritage' by examining the history of the hundreds of great houses demolished in Britain and Ireland in the twentieth century. Seven lively essays debate our understanding of what is meant by loss and how it relates to popular conceptions of the great house.

Author : Stephanie Barczewski
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526117533
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Country houses and the British Empire, 1700–1930 written by Stephanie Barczewski and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Country houses and the British empire, 1700–1930 assesses the economic and cultural links between country houses and the Empire between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. Using sources from over fifty British and Irish archives, it enables readers to better understand the impact of the empire upon the British metropolis by showing both the geographical variations and its different cultural manifestations. Barczewski offers a rare scholarly analysis of the history of country houses that goes beyond an architectural or biographical study, and recognises their importance as the physical embodiments of imperial wealth and reflectors of imperial cultural influences. In so doing, she restores them to their true place of centrality in British culture over the last three centuries, and provides fresh insights into the role of the Empire in the British metropolis.

Author : Ian Greaves
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1398116351
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Country Houses of South and West Yorkshire written by Ian Greaves and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly illustrated, fascinating description of the lost country houses of South and West Yorkshire.

Author : Ben Cowell
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1837650586
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British Country House Revival written by Ben Cowell and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Giles Worsley
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book England's Lost Houses written by Giles Worsley and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the photographs in Country Life's archives, none are more poignant or intriguing than the images of houses that have been lost. This text puts the lost country houses of England in historical context and explains why so many were destroyed.

Author : Maxwell Craven
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1398111430
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Country Houses of Derbyshire written by Maxwell Craven and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating description of the lost country houses of Derbyshire. This fascinating picture of an important but often forgotten part of the history of Derbyshire over the centuries will be of interest to all those who live in the county or know it well.

Author : Joan Coutu
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228014972
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics and the English Country House, 1688–1800 written by Joan Coutu and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics has always been at the heart of the English country house, in its design and construction, as well as in the activities and experiences of those who lived in and visited these places. As Britain moved from an agrarian to an imperial economy over the course of the eighteenth century, the home mirrored the social change experienced in the public sphere. This collection focuses on the relationship between the country house and the mutable nature of British politics in the eighteenth century. Essays explore the country house as a stage for politicking, a vehicle for political advancement, a symbol of party allegiance or political values, and a setting for appropriate lifestyles. Initially the exclusive purview of the landed aristocracy, politics increasingly came to be played out in the open, augmented by the emergence of career politicians – usually untitled members of the patriciate – and men of new money, much of it created on Caribbean plantations or in the employ of the East India Company. Politics and the English Country House, 1688–1800 reveals how, during this period of profound change, the country house remained a constant. The country house was the definitive tangible manifestation of social standing and, for the political class, owning one became almost an imperative. In its consideration of the country house as lived and spatial experience, as an aesthetic and symbolic object, and as an economic engine, this book offers a new perspective on the complexity of political meaning embedded in the eighteenth-century country house – and on ourselves as active recipients and interpreters of its various narratives, more than two centuries later.

Author : W. M. Roberts
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781837650712
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Country Houses of Suffolk written by W. M. Roberts and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lavishly illustrated account of forty magnificent country houses, destroyed in the last century. The Lost Country Houses of Suffolk, well-researched and written and copiously illustrated, will help the reader to imagine the county's landscape refurnished with the many elegant mansions which are now sadly lost. JOHN BLATCHLY During the twentieth century some forty of Suffolk's finest country houses vanished forever, a few by fire, but more frequently through demolition, either because uneconomic to run, or through the deterioration oftheir fabric. This book relates their tragic stories, with lavish use of engravings, images and pictures to bring to life what has now gone forever. It offers an account of each house [its history, its family, its architect], with a description of the buildings, and particular information on how it came to be destroyed. The houses are put into their wider context by an introductory section, covering the economic and social circumstances which caused difficulties for the owners of country houses at the time, and comparing the loss in Suffolk with losses in England as a whole. Houses covered: Acton Place, Assington Hall, Barking Hall, Barton Hall, Boulge Hall, Bramford Hall, Branches Park, Bredfield House, Brome Hall, Campsea Ashe High House, Carlton Hall, Cavenham Hall, Chediston Hall, Downham Hall, Drinkstone Park, Easton Park, Edwardstone Hall, Flixton Hall, Fornham Hall, Hardwick House, HenhamHall, Hobland Hall, Holton Hall, Hunston Hall, Livermere Hall, The Manor House Mildenhall, Moulton Paddocks, Oakley Park, Ousden Hall, The Red House Ipswich, Redgrave Hall, Rendlesham Hall, Rougham Hall, Rushbrooke Hall, Stoke Park, Sudbourne Hall, Tendring Hall, Thorington Hall, Thornham Hall, Ufford Place.