Main entry:

Cruickshank, Dan, author.

Title & Author:

The English house : a history in eight buildings / Dan Cruickshank.

Publication:

London : Hutchinson Heinemann, 2025.

Description:

xxix, 474 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-437) and index.
Introduction -- Architects and patrons: Pallant House, Chichester (1712) -- A home for immigrants: 19 Princelet Street, Spitalfields (1718) -- A house built by connoisseurs: Maister House, Hull (1743-c.1760) -- A piece of urban theatre: Heywood's House and Bank, Liverpool (1798-1800) -- A question of style: Cragside, Northumberland (1869-95) -- The two-up, two-down: Toxeth Bye-law Houses (c1860-c.1890) -- The birth of the council flat: the Boundary Estate, Shoreditch (1890-1900) -- The first 'modern' house: New Ways, Northampton (1925-6).

Summary:

This is the story of the superbly elegant early eighteenth-century Pallant House in Chichester. It's the story of 19 Princelet Street in Spitafields, built for a Huguenot silk-weaver, ultimately a synagogue. It's also the story of - among others - a row of two-up, two-downs in Toxteth, a block of flats in London's East End, and what Ideal Home's magazine described in 1926 as Britain's `first modern house' - in Northampton.Together these buildings reveal the ways in which English homes have developed and changed over the past few centuries. At the same time, as Dan Cruickshank shows, they have much to tell us about the lives of their first occupants: their aspirations, their struggles, their place within society and relationship with their local community. The English House brilliantly weaves these two strands together, blending architectural and social history to create a series of brilliantly observed portraits of fascinating buildings.

ISBN:

9781529152456 (hardback)
1529152453 (hardback)
9781529152463 (ePub ebook)

Subject:

Architecture, Domestic Great Britain History.
Dwellings Great Britain History.
Housing Great Britain History.
Habitations Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Architecture, Domestic History.
Dwellings History.
Housing History.
Architecture.
European history.
History.
Architecture and Planning.
Great Britain

Holdings:

Location: Library main 325593
Call No.: 325593
Copy: 1
Status: Available