English country house
An English country house is a representative English country estate for a Landed Gentry family . The counterpart are the townhouses.
Examples are Blenheim Palace , Burghley House , Chatsworth House , Hatfield House , Highclere Castle , Longleat House , Montacute House , Shugborough Hall .
Compare also Treasure Houses of England .
literature
- Malcolm Airs: The Making of the English Country House, 1500-1640. Architectural Press, London 1975, ISBN 0-85139-378-0 .
- Mark Girouard: Life in the English Country House. A Social and Architectural History Yale University Press, New Haven 1978, ISBN 0-300-02273-5 .
- Michael Hall: The Victorian Country House. Aurum, London 2009, ISBN 978-1-84513-457-0 .
- Gervase Jackson Stops: The Country House in Perspective. Pavilion, 1990, ISBN 1-85145-383-0 .
- Candida Lycett Green: The Perfect English Country House. Pavilion, London 1991, ISBN 1-85145-551-5 .
- Mary Miers: The English Country House. Rizzoli, New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-8478-3057-2 .
- Mark Purcell: The country house library . Yale University Press, New Haven; London 2017, ISBN 978-0-300-22740-6 (English, representation of the libraries of English country houses as their representative room).
- Otto Rauchbauer: The English country house as a model for integrative cultural studies. A sketch and a research overview. In: Works from English and American studies. Vol. 9, No. 2. 1984, ISSN 0171-5410 , pp. 157ff.