CLAY DABBINS: VERNACULAR BUILDINGS OF THE SOLWAY PLAIN
Written by Nina Jennings
Published by Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society
in 2003
ISBN: 1873124384
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CLAY DABBINS: VERNACULAR BUILDINGS OF THE SOLWAY PLAIN
Written by Nina Jennings.
Stock no. 1828330
1st.
2003.
Softcover.
Slightly better than very good condition.
The mud buildings of the English Solway Plain known locally as "Dabbins" or "Daubins" are little known outside the immediate area, but they continued to be built until the early years of the twentieth century. The author has studied in detail most of the 150 or so farmhouses, cottages and farm buildings which remain and has attempted to trace their development in form and in constructional methods. These were peasant buildings, build by their owners for their own use, and they continue to provide warm, comfortable, well-insulated homes to this day. Green cardwraps. B/w photos and plans. ISBN: 1873124384. Initials and date in ink to half-title page else contents clean.
Front cover
Contents
- Abbreviations
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Key to Building Materials
- List of figures
- List of plates
- Chapter 1
- Introduction
- Chapter 2
- Living Conditions on the Solway |Plain in Recent Times
- Salt Marshes
- Fishing and Shooting
- Transport
- Life on the Farms
- Cottage Life
- Chapter 3
- Clay Buildings from Earliest Times
- Chapter 4
- Farmhouses from the Late Seventeenth Century
- Chapter 5
- Cottages
- Chapter 6
- Farm Buildings
- Chapter 7
- Construction & Carpentry
- Thatch & other roof coverings
- Crucks
- Carpentry
- Clay Construction
- Ceilings
- Rendering
- Plinths
- Chapter 8
- Stability
- Chapter 9
- Seventeenth Century Stone Buildings
- Chapter 10
- Conservation & Maintenance
- Chapter 11
- Conclusions
- Glossary
- Index