TY - BOOK ID - 138776830 TI - Traditional buildings of the English countryside PY - 2011 SN - 0755603982 0857731238 1283293196 9786613293190 0857720104 9780857720108 9781283293198 9780857731234 9780857720108 9781848856141 1848856148 9781845118419 1845118413 PB - London New York New York I.B. Tauris Distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Architecture KW - Vernacular architecture KW - Country homes UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138776830 AB - No other country offers so rich and varied a heritage of traditional buildings as England. From windmills to water mills, cottages to castles, dovecotes to beeboles a wealth of treasures await discovery. Drawing upon forty years' experience of caring for historic structures Geoffrey R. Sharpe provides a simple but informed guide to these delights and curiosities of the English countryside. He explains not just the purpose of these buildings but the part they played in the history of the countryside, showing how the buildings evolved and the ways in which people lived and worked in them. He use. ER -