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The small house in eighteenth-century London : a social and architectural history / Peter Guillery ; drawings by Andrew Donald ; new photographs by Derek Kendall.

by Guillery, Peter.

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New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press in association with English Heritage, c2004.

Vernacular architecture -- England -- London.

Working class -- Dwellings -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.

Architecture, Domestic -- England -- London.

London (England) -- Buildings, structures, etc.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip048/2003018895.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip048/2003018895.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0e9v7-aa

0300102380 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780300102383 (cloth : alk. paper)

vii, 351 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 29 cm.

The vernacular metropolis: looking across eighteenth-century London -- 'The multiplicity of human habitations': understanding eighteenth-century London's smaller house architecture -- Another Georgian Spitalfields: workshop tenements in London's silk district -- Across London Bridge: tanning, timber and tradition in Southwark and Bermondsey -- Waste and place: Mile End Road, Kingsland Road and ambivalence at the margins -- The military-industrial satellite: shipbuilding and housebuilding from Deptford to Woolwich -- Between picturesque and respectable: urban-vernacular architecture and gentility in London's outlying settlements -- Along the coast and across the sea: reflections of the vernacular metropolis -- 'Despicable cottages': improvement and artisan eclipse -- A living tradition? Concluding remarks.

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