Name: The Gentleman's House: Or, how to Plan English Residences, From the Parsonage to the Palace (Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19Th Century)
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Author: Robert Kerr
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The Gentleman's House: Or, how to Plan English Residences, From the Parsonage to the Palace (Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19Th Century)

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Physical Book

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Author

Robert Kerr

Year

2012

Language

English

Pages

600

Format

Paperback

ISBN

1108044840

ISBN13

9781108044844

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Gentleman's House: Or, how to Plan English Residences, From the Parsonage to the Palace (Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19Th Century) "

After Scottish architect Robert Kerr (1823–1904) published this book in 1864, he was given a commission to build what would become his best-known work, Bearwood House, in Berkshire, for the then proprietor of The Times of London, John Walter. Kerr gives a thorough explanation of the elements involved in the planning and building of a 'comfortable English Residence of the better sort' in this book, which is divided into five parts. The first gives a detailed historical account of the 'domestic plan' from the eleventh century to the present day. The subsequent sections leave no corner of a manor house unexamined, as Kerr discusses every room of such houses, their grounds, the possible types of architectural styles, and the matter of cost. There is also an extensive appendix of plates of architectural and garden plans, accompanied by explanations, giving a comprehensive guide to mid-Victorian stately-home building.

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