Discovering your old house
Iredale, David
Discovering your old house - 4th ed. - Princes Risborough Shire Publications 2002 - 176p. ill. 21cm.
A step by step guide on how to discover the history of an old house. Looks at how different structural techniques used over the centuries may help with the date of construction and explains how to trace alteration, improvement and extension in the layout of rooms or style of features, fixtures and fittings. Other chapters cover: key sources of information such as manuscripts, archives and public libraries; old title deeds; place names; and on-site survey methods.
0747804982 9780747804987
United Kingdom--
690.241 $2 18
Discovering your old house - 4th ed. - Princes Risborough Shire Publications 2002 - 176p. ill. 21cm.
A step by step guide on how to discover the history of an old house. Looks at how different structural techniques used over the centuries may help with the date of construction and explains how to trace alteration, improvement and extension in the layout of rooms or style of features, fixtures and fittings. Other chapters cover: key sources of information such as manuscripts, archives and public libraries; old title deeds; place names; and on-site survey methods.
0747804982 9780747804987
United Kingdom--
690.241 $2 18