Main entry:

Littlejohn, David, 1937-2015.

Title & Author:

The fate of the English country house / David Littlejohn ; photographs by Sheila Littlejohn.

Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

Description:

xiii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-328) and index.
A Television Setting, and Three Houses Near Oxford -- What a Country House Used to Mean -- Tearing Them Down -- To the Rescue -- The Country House Owner Today -- Five Ways to Pay the Bills -- Opening to the Public -- Separate Quarters -- Recycling Country Houses -- Giving Your House Away: The National Trust Today -- Letting It Decay -- Some Tentative Conclusions -- Appendix: Definitions and Numbers -- Notes -- Index.

Summary:

For millions of people in the English-speaking world, the now standard image of the British country house is Brideshead Castle in Wiltshire: the domed and doomed baroque country seat of the Marchmain family seen in the BBC adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel, Brideshead Revisited. In real life, the house used for the television series is Castle Howard, one of the largest and most opulent private homes in England, located on 10,000 acres of gardens, parkland, and woods in.
North Yorkshire, now visited by more than 200,000 tourists a year. Between 3,500 and 4,000 country houses - large, often elegantly furnished and surrounded by extensive estates - remain more or less intact in England today, although frequently converted to non-residential uses. Whether in public or private hands, the best known of them have become a major magnet for British and foreign tourists, attracting about 20 million paying visitors each year. Country houses, with.
Their furnishings and landscaped settings, have been called England's one important contribution to art history. They figure prominently in the ongoing debate over how much of any "National Heritage" is worth preserving. In The Fate of the English Country House, David Littlejohn describes the past glories and troubled present condition of "the stately homes of England," both those that continue to serve as private houses, and those that have been turned into museums,
Tourist attractions, convention centers, hotels, country clubs, schools, apartments, hospitals, even prisons. By means of extensive conversations with their owners and managers (the book contains more than 50 photographs of the houses), the author takes us on a private tour of these remarkable places and evaluates the many proposals that have been put forward for their survival.

Resources:
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Publisher description

ISBN:

019508876X (cloth)
9780195088762 (cloth)

Subject:

Country homes Economic aspects England.
Country homes Remodeling for other use England.
Maisons de campagne Aspect économique Angleterre.
Maisons de campagne Reconversion Angleterre.
Country homes Economic aspects
Country homes Remodeling for other use
Landhuizen.
Conservatie.
England

Holdings:

Location: Library main 129332
Call No.: ID NA7620.L48; ID:97-B1844
Status: Available