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The standard textbook on timber buildings which include many of the most beautiful houses in Britain. The book is extensively illustrated with outstanding photographs and line drawings which reveal in great detail how these attractive buildings were constructed.

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.

With an account of how bricks, brick files and terracotta have been made and used from medieval times onwards, this title presents an illustrated glossary of brickwork where virtually every term is shown in photographs and diagrams and a chronological photographic survey ranges from the earliest survivors to the twentieth century.