The Country Life Book of Cottages costing from £150 to £600

Lawrence Weaver

Verlag: Country Life, London, 1913

Beschreibung

Contents: Introductory. Aim of the book ; A record of facts ; Rise in cost of building ; Architect, builder and client ; Building by-laws. -- The problem of providing cottages for labourers (by F.E. Green) Failure of Housing Acts ; The three ways by which lack of cottages can be met ; The case for Housing Commissioners. -- The cheapest types of cottages. Proposals for stimulating the building of rural cottages ; The Irish system ; The scheme of the Rural League ; Factors in economical building ; The Letchworth cottages ; Mr. St. Loe Strachey's cottages ; The use of concrete. -- Cottages / by Mr. A.H. Clough. The fruits of a large experience ; Costs and materials ; Examples in several counties ; Outbuildings for small holders ; Work of the Staffordshire County Council ; Mr. Clough's standard specification. -- Cottages for estate servants. For gardeners and chauffeurs ; Cottage combined with garden-house ; Cottage with office. -- The £400 cottage. Various examples, some showing kitchen used as living-room, and some with two sitting-rooms in addition to the kitchen. -- The £500 cottage. The lessons of Gidea Park ; Various types of plan ; Notes on slating ; Some Welsh examples ; Use of old materials. -- The £600 cottage. The "County life" cottage competition ; The conditions ; Many solutions of a typical problem ; Planning of the garden ; Pictures and plans of £600 cottages in being. -- Gate lodges. Planning and treatment influenced by design of main house ; Double cottages with archway ; A group of three. -- The repairing of old cottages. The need to preserve character of old villages ; Examples of successful cottage renovation ; Changing labourers' cottages into week-end homes ; A converted Oast-house. -- The grouping of cottages. Artistic value of grouping ; Examples of Oxfordshire, Surrey, Essex, Gloucestershire, etc. -- Village planning. The lesson of the Hampstead Garden suburb ; Squares and crescents ; Absence of garden walls. x pages, 1 leaf, 231 pages including frontispiece, 16 pages of advertisements, illustrations, plans ; 23 cm. Brown cloth boards, slight shelf wear to edges, 1913 signature of Ernest Lawrence Cotterell a teacher of architecture in Wolverhampton in the early 20th century on front cover. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 015751

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Country Life Book of Cottages costing ...

Verlag: Country Life, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1913

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good