Traditional Buildings of Cumbria

Brunskill, R W

ISBN 10: 0304357731 / ISBN 13: 9780304357734

Published by Cassell, United Kingdom, 2002

About this Item

hardback, 10" x 7 3/4", a very good tightly bound copy with clean and unmarked contents and in a well preserved pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated throughout, 224pp.

Seller Inventory # 297539

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Traditional Buildings of Cumbria
• Publisher: Cassell, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0304357731
• ISBN 13: 9780304357734
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

R. W. Brunskill has recently retired as professor at De Montfort University, Leicester, and was formerly reader in architecture at the University of Manchester.