Main entry:

Girouard, Mark, 1931-2022.

Title & Author:

The Victorian country house / Mark Girouard.

Edition:

Rev. and enl. ed.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1979.

Description:

vii, 467 pages : illustrations, facsimiles (on lining papers) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
A Great Victorian Gentleman -- The Upper Classes Adapt to their Circumstances -- The Men who Built the Country Houses -- A Country House Analysis -- A Run Round the Nouveaux-riches -- Victorian Gentlemen: the Ideal -- The Victorian Gentleman’s House -- The Building of a Country House --The Choice of an Architect -- Materials Old and New -- Technology and the Country House: Plumbing, Heating and Ventilation -- Gas and Electricity -- Other Services -- Technology, Comfort, Snobbery and Aesthetics -- The Country House Plan -- The Servants’ Wing -- Nuances and Drawbacks of Victorian Planning -- The Historical Development of the Plan : William Burn -- The Male Domain -- The Conservatory --The Great Hall -- The Picturesque versus the Functional : Pugin -- Barry, Blore, Burn and Salvin -- The Battle of the Styles -- The High-Victorian Years -- Muscularity -- Texture, Colour and Ruskin -- High-Victorian Attitudes: the Pugin Tradition -- High-Victorian Attitudes : the Picturesque Tradition -- The Revolt of the Goths -- The Architect as Artist -- Artistic Houses and Artistic People -- Kerr and Stevenson -- Five Architects -- The Old English Style -- Leys Wood -- 'Queen Anne’ -- Shaw: Composition and Planning -- The Hall Revived -- Philip Webb -- Clouds -- Shaw’s Contemporaries: Ernest George -- George Devey: a Postscript -- The First Steps to Neo-Georgian. VICTORIAN COUNTRY HOUSES. Harlaxton Manor, Lincolnshire 1831-8 -- Bayons Manor, Lincolnshire 1836-42 -- Scarisbrick Hall, Lancashire 1837-45 (and 1862-8) -- Merevale Hall, Warwickshire 1838-44 -- Highclere Castle, Hampshire 1840-50 -- Prestwold Hall, Leicestershire 1842-4 -- Osborne, Isle of Wight 1844-8 -- Peckforton Castle, Cheshire 1844-50 -- Treberfydd, Breconshire 1848-52 -- Horsted Place, Sussex 1850-4 -- Milton Ernest Hall, Bedfordshire 1853-8 -- Woodchester Park, Gloucestershire c. 1854-68 -- Shadwell Park, Norfolk c. 1856-60 (and 1840-2) -- The Crossleys of Halifax and their Buildings -- George Devey in Kent: 213 Betteshanger 1856-61, 1882 St Alban’s Court 1875-8 -- Kelham Hall, Nottinghamshire 1858-61 -- Brodsworth Hall, Yorkshire 1861-70 -- Tyntesfield, Somerset 1863-6 -- Humewood Castle, County Wicklow 1866-70 -- Bear Wood, Berkshire 1865-74 -- Cardiff Castle, Glamorganshire 1868-85 -- The Nouveau-riche style -- Cragside, Northumberland 1869-84 -- Kinmel Park, Denbighshire 1868-74 -- Beauvale Lodge, Nottinghamshire 1871-3 -- Castell Coch, Glamorganshire 1872-9 -- Carlton Towers, Yorkshire 1873-7 -- Adcote, Shropshire 1876-81 -- Ken Hill, Norfolk 1879-80 -- Wightwick Manor, Staffordshire 1887-93 -- Standen, Sussex 1891-4.

Summary:

"In-depth look at thirty individual houses" ... "built as the centres of sizeable country estates"--Preface.

Resources:
Table of contents
French equivalent / Équivalent français

ISBN:

0300023901
9780300023909
0300034725
9780300034721

Subject:

Country homes Great Britain History 19th century.
Manors Great Britain History 19th century.
Architecture, Victorian Great Britain.
Architecture, Domestic Great Britain.
Country homes Great Britain.
Maisons de campagne Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture victorienne Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture, Domestic.
Architecture, Victorian.
Country homes.
Manors.
Villa
Great Britain.
Großbritannien
England Country houses 1831-1894 Architecture.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 89200
Call No.: 2667; ID:86-B17560
Status: Available