Traditional Buildings of Cumbria - The County of the Lakes

Klappentext Many people who live in and visit the Lake District are charmed by the traditional buildings that enhance the landscape. This book introduces the traditional houses, barns, watermills, and chapels of the Lake District and the surrounding hills and valleys that make up the county of Cumbria. With the aid of hundreds of photographs, drawings, and diagrams, the author explains how the building types have developed over the centuries and how the indigenous building materials of stone, clay, brick, and slate have been used to create works of vernacular architecture that seem to grow out of the surrounding landscape. Zusammenfassung Introduces the traditional houses! barns! watermills and chapels of the Lake District and the surrounding hills and valleys that make up the county of Cumbria. This title explains how the building types have developed over the centuries.

Product details

• Authors: R W Brunskill, R. W. Brunskill, R.W. Brunskill
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2011
• EAN: 9780300170597
• ISBN: 978-0-300-17059-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 191 mm x 241 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Vernacular Buildings Series; Vernacular Buildings (Yale); Vernacular Buildings
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Theory of art, Cumbria, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Residential, Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, ART / Criticism & Theory, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, Residential buildings, domestic buildings, History of Architecture, Architecture: residential and domestic buildings, Cumbria & Lake District, Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings