Many people living in and visiting the Lake District are charmed by the traditional buildings which accentuate the landscape. This book introduces the traditional houses, barns, watermills and chapels of the Lake District and those surrounding hills and valleys which make up the county of Cumbria. With the aid of hundreds of photographs, drawings and diagrams, the author explains how the building types have developed over the centuries and how the indigenous building materials of stone, clay, brick and slate have been used to create works of vernacular architecture which seem to grow out of the surrounding landscape.
- ISBN10 0575072415
- ISBN13 9780575072411
- Publish Date 11 October 2001
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English