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TRADITIONAL DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE OF THE BANBURY REGION

by Raymond B. Wood-Jones

Published by University of Manchester. 1st. 1963

Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. This work is concerned primarily with the lesser domestic architecture of the Oxfordshire region, the homes of the yeoman farmers in which traditional and regional features are most clearly expressed, producing a distinctive regional style of ubilding of remarkable homogeneity in material and character. A study of over 1,100 existing structures. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations and plans. xvii and 309 pages plus b/w plates to rear.

Top & tail of spine and top corners of boards bumped. Small name & date in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to text block and endpapers. Else contents clean. Pale blue dustwrapper is grubby, edge-worn, browned to spine and some foxing present.

Stock no. 1830729

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Contents

  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • NOTE ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS
  • LIST OF FIGURES
  • LIST OF PLATES
  • CHAPTER
  • I. THE BANBURY REGION
  • II. THE ANTECEDENTS OF THE YEOMAN HOUSE, 1300-1550
  • III. LESSER HALL HOUSES OF THE MIDDLE AGES, 1300-1550
  • IV. THE YEOMAN HOUSE IN THE 16TH CENTURY
  • V. THE REGIONAL HOUSE, 1550-1640
  • VI. LATER DEVELOPMENTS OF THE REGIONAL HOUSE, 1646-1700
  • VII. LOWLAND PLAN TYPES IN THE 17TH CENTURY
  • VIII. SINGLE-CELL HOUSES BEFORE 1700
  • IX. THE DECLINE OF THE REGIONAL STYLE, 1700-1800
  • X. THE PROCESS OF IMPROVEMENT, 1600-1800
  • XI. REGIONAL BUILDING PRACTICES
  • XII. ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES OF THE REGIONAL STYLE
  • XIII. THE REGIONAL PATTERN OF DEVELOPMENT
  • APPENDICES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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