The Cottage in Interwar England: Class and the Picturesque

By: Entwistle, George

The 20 years between First and Second World Wars were a time of dramatic development for English people and their homes. By the end of the 1930s, one family in three was living in an interwar house. But one thing that did not change was the sentimental affection of the English for the idea of the cottage picturesque. This book explores the powerful hold on the national imagination of cottage architecture in the interwar period and its hitherto under-examined...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848226985
• ISBN13: 9781848226982
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
• Length: 224 Pages