Dorset Farmhouses & Cottages

No buildings in Dorset enjoy greater affection or exert a stronger hold over the popular imagination than its farmhouses and cottages. As a celebration of vernacular craftsmanship, of architecture without architects (and planners), and of the skilled use of local materials, they are without equal. Some are thatched and timber-framed, others of cob, chalk or flint. Many are built with hand-made bricks, or with the limestones for which Dorset is famous. The earliest are medieval, whilst the Prince of Wales's urban 'village' of Pound bury - still twenty years from completion underlines the ways in which the traditional architecture of Dorset's farmhouses and cottages continues to shape the future character of the county.

Author: Micheal Billett
Publisher: Dovecote Press
Extra Details: Pictorial Card Covers 6 x 9 inches tall, 80 Pages,Lavishly Illustrated with B&W Photos throughout.