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Cotswold Barns (Paperback)
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Cotswold Barns (Paperback)
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List price R564
Loot Price R479
Discovery Miles 4 790
You Save R85 (15%)
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The stone barn, especially the long tithe barn, is one of the
iconic features of the Cotswold landscape. This book is a
systematic look at the design, construction and changing use of the
Cotswold barn and its place in the rural economy and landscape.
Text and illustrations trace the barn's development from the
earliest surviving medieval estate and tithe barns, through the
growth of the wool trade, the dissolution of the monasteries, the
decline in church holdings and the agricultural revolution, down to
an era where increasing mechanisation changed the life of farming
communities, eventually bringing economic depression and leaving
the majority of the stone barns redundant in today's landscape. The
book concludes with a look at the recent revival of barns through
their conversion for housing, business, educational and cultural
purposes, and with a glossary of the major surviving barns.
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