Research Catalog

Title

The Victorian country house / Mark Girouard.

Author

Girouard, Mark, 1931-2022.

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1979.

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Details

Description

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

Summary

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

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Geschichte 1800-1900
• 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
• Architecture, Domestic
• Architecture, Victorian
• Country homes
• Manors
• Villa
• Great Britain
• Großbritannien

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 0300023901
• 9780300023909
• 0300034725
• 9780300034721

LCCN

79064077

OCLC

• ocm05028996
• 5028996
• SCSB-26960

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library