The "Country Life" Book of Cottages : Costing From £150 to £600 / by Lawrence Weaver
1913, First Edition. London : Country life, Ltd. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Light foxing to prelims. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #402313
Physical description; x, 1 leaf, 231 pages including frontispiece, illustrations, plans 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Subjects; Architecture, Domestic England. Cottages. Architecture, Domestic Great Britain. Cottages Great Britain. England. Great Britain.
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