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Author
Language
English
Description
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,...
Author
Publisher
H.N. Abrams
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
Houses featured include : Bodiam Castle, Tattershall Castle, Ightham Mote, Cotehele, Baddesley Clinton, Little Moreton Hall, Hardwick Hall, Montacute House, Knole, Bickling Hall, Ham House, Ashdown House, Sudbury Hall, Belton House, Dyrham Park, Petworth House, Anthony House, Stourhead, Kedleston Hall, Osterly Park, Saltram, Berrington Hall, Castle Coole, Ickworth, Penrhyn Castle, Knightshayes Court, Cragside, Wightwick Manor, Lindisfarne Castle and...
Author
Publisher
National Trust
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"The National Trust is one of the world's leading conservation organisations and now cares for over 350 historic properties, including over 200 houses. This book covers both great mansions, such as Petworth House and Kedleston Hall, and less grand, but equally interesting buildings, from romantic Godolphin House, rooted in the granite landscape of Cornwall, to the angular concrete and glass of 2 Willow Road, a piece of modernist architecture on the...