[PDF] Secret Houses Of The Cotswolds eBook

Author : Jeremy Musson
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 10,2 MB
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1781012415

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Secret Houses of the Cotswolds is a personal tour of twenty of the UK’s most beguiling houses in this much loved area of western England, defined by its distinctive honey-coloured stone, rolling hills, picturesque villages and the most traditional English landscape. Author and architectural historian, Jeremy Musson, and Cotswolds-based photographer Hugo Rittson Thomas, offer privileged access to twenty houses, from castles and manor houses, by way of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century mansions, revealing their history, architecture and interiors, in the company of their devoted owners. In the footsteps of artists and designers from Georgian designers such as William Kent to Victorian visionary, William Morris, founder of the arts and crafts movement, we find a series of fascinating country houses of different sizes and atmospheres, which have shaped the English identity, and in different ways express the ideals of English life. Most of the houses included here are privately owned and not usually open to the public, and all of these houses featured in this book can be enjoyed through the eyes of owners, as well as an experienced architectural historian, and an award-winning photographer.

Author : Victoria Summerley
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,59 MB
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780711235274

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A captivating portrait of the greatest British gardens and the lords, ladies and gardeners who own and manage them. Focusing on the counties of Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, this stunning book features 20 gardens designed by some of the leading contemporary garden designers from across the world. This beautiful corner of England has a rich tradition of garden making, which is explored in this very personal view by photographer Hugo Rittson-Thomas and journalist Victoria Summerley, both residents of this green pocket with more than its fair share of beautiful and interesting gardens. Some of the gardens are strictly private, while others are regularly open to visitors, but all can now be savoured and enjoyed along with those who know them best.

Author : Miss Read
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,5 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780618227594

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Miss Read introduces the inhabitants of the lovely village of Thrush Green during the course of one pivotal day--May Day.

Author : Jane Bingham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,90 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0195398769

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Lying between the provinces and the capital, the Cotswolds have been home to kings and aristocrats, and have played a dramatic role in the story of Britain.

Author : Lydia Greeves
Publisher : National Trust
Page : 1047 pages
File Size : 13,10 MB
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1911657364

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This captivating book, fully revised and updated and featuring more NT houses than ever before, is a guide to some of the greatest architectural treasures of Britain, encompassing both interior and exterior design. This new edition is fully revised and updated and includes entries for new properties including: Acorn Bank, Claife Viewing Station, Cushendun, Cwmdu, Fen Cottage, The Firs (birthplace of Edward Elgar), Hawker's Hut, Lizard Wireless Station, Totternhoe Knolls and Trelissick. The houses covered include spectacular mansions such as Petworth House and Waddesdon Manor, and more lowly dwellings such as the Birmingham Back to Backs and estate villages like Blaise Hamlet, near Bristol. In addition to houses, the book also covers fascinating buildings as diverse as churches, windmills, dovecotes, castles, follies, barns and even pubs. The book also acts as an overview of the country's architectural history, with every period covered, from the medieval stronghold of Bodiam Castle to the clean-lined Modernism of The Homewood. Teeming with stories of the people who lived and worked in these buildings: wealthy collectors (Charles Wade at Snowshill), captains of industry (William Armstrong at Cragside), prime ministers (Winston Churchill at Chartwell) and pop stars (John Lennon at Mendips). Written in evocative, imaginative prose and illustrated with glorious images from the National Trust's photographic library, this book is an essential guide to the built heritage of England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Author : Trevor Yorke
Publisher : Countryside Books (GB)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,47 MB
Release : 2015-03-23
Category : Cotswold (England)
ISBN : 9781846743337

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Cotswold Cottages have a warm beauty unequaled in rural Britain. The cottages have a character that has been determined by changes in local industry and farming, as well as by the properties of the building materials used, including the hard, honey-colored, Cotswold stone. Even the details like the tiny hinged windows, old planked doors and ironwork fittings were usually formed by local hands and have a style unique to the area. The Cotswold Cottage describes the key characteristics which define these cottages, their history and form, what they are made from, their interiors, and the colorful gardens around them. Trevor Yorke's carefully drawn diagrams and photographs, together with his easy-to-follow text, provide a wonderful introduction to these much loved Cotswold homes.

Author : Sue Hazeldine
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,65 MB
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1445664135

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A miscellany of curious local Cotswold stories accompanied by hand-drawn images.

Author : Katy Campbell
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 21,2 MB
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 1647005884

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Property expert Katy Campbell and acclaimed photographer Mark Nicholson offer an insider’s look at the Cotswolds' most charming and inspirational private homes At Home in the Cotswolds is a celebration of beautiful Cotswold houses and their interiors. Author Katy Campbell and photographer Mark Nicholson take us on a tour of the villages and rolling hills of the Cotswolds as they uncover some of the most charming and inspirational homes in the region: a chocolate box cottage, an exquisite old rectory, a Georgian farmhouse, a quintessential manor house, an historic stately home, and more. The featured homes, along with their adjacent gardens, were chosen not only for their architectural beauty but for their stunning interiors, which range in style from classical English country retreat to chic contemporary dwelling. Each house, and the interior design of its rooms, reflects the charm and character of its owners—and comes with its own unique and intriguing story. With the homes’ idyllic settings—and a foreword by the Duchess of Marlborough—this collection presents inspirational ideals of English country style certain to fascinate and delight.

Author : Susanne Lord
Publisher :
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 21,78 MB
Release : 2015-12
Category :
ISBN : 9781735159706

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The London Explorers begins with IN SEARCH OF SCANDAL

Author : Steve Ponty
Publisher : Steve Ponty
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 23,65 MB
Release : 2017-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1527211215

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Steve Ponty researched the topography of the Cotswolds and unearthed J.R.R. Tolkien's 'Shire' by comparison between the maps of Middle- and Mother-earth. Apart from the secrets of geography hidden in the epic story, there are allusions, never revealed before this brand new perspective, to personalities contemporary with Tolkien’s writings.