Classic Hand Tools

View Cart
   HomeShowsVisit UsAbout UsShippingLinksContact Us
Like us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterRead our Blog
 
 
 
     
   
     

    Secure Online Shopping
   
 

Secure Online Shopping

Books on Buildings
Margaret Wood, THE ENGLISH MEDIAEVAL HOUSE Ref: BUI-004

Illustrated with diagrams and black & white plates. First published book on medieval domestic architecture in England.

Hardback 


Price: £78.00
Margaret Wood, THE ENGLISH MEDIAEVAL HOUSE

Quantity:  


Helene Von Rosenstiel, Gail Caskey Winkler, FOR HISTORIC BUILDINGS, FLOOR COVERINGS Ref: BUI-001

Wood Planks and Oriental Rugs weren't the only floor coverings found in America's old houses. In fact, a rich array of floor treatments have been used--from brick, tile and linoleum to mats and floorcloths, from rag rugs to ingrain, embroidered and pile carpets. And, of course, Oriental rugs on wood floors. Finding just the right floor covering to furnish an old house or to create a period look in any building has always been a challenge. Now, Floor Coverings for Historic Buildings explains how to choose and buy the correct floor coverings used between 1750 and the 1930s, including where to order 475 reproductions described here in detail. This invaluable catalog, illustrated with 175 photographs, also provides a history of American floors,a glossary of floor covering terms, addresses for 82 suppliers (many of whom fill custom and special orders), a reading list and sources of help. 


Price: £23.99
Helene Von Rosenstiel, Gail Caskey Winkler, FOR HISTORIC BUILDINGS, FLOOR COVERINGS

Quantity:  


TRADITIONAL BUILDINGS OF CUMBRIA Ref: BUI-002

Many people who live in and visit the Lake District are charmed by the traditional buildings that enhance the landscape.This book introduces the traditional houses, barns, watermills and chapels of the Lake District and the surrounding hills and valleys that make up the county of Cumbria. With the aid of hundreds of photographs, drawings, and diagrams, the author explains how the building types have developed over the centuries and how the indigenous building materials of stone, clay, brick and slate have been used to create works of vernacular architecture that seem to grow out of the surrounding landscape.

Hardback 


Price: £60.00
TRADITIONAL BUILDINGS OF CUMBRIA

Quantity:  


R. W. Brunskill, TRADITIONAL BUILDINGS OF BRITAIN Ref: BUI-003

Traditional Buildings of Britain An introduction to Vernacular Architecture, R. W. Brunskill, Gollancz 1981. 160 pages, hardback in dustjacket. Covers cottages, farmhouses, barns, cow houses, oast houses, and other types of building often unique to a particular region, built from  local materials to suit the demands of family or rural life without the intervention of professional architects. 


Price: £23.00
R. W. Brunskill, TRADITIONAL BUILDINGS OF BRITAIN

Quantity:  


James Ayres, DOMESTIC INTERIORS: The British Tradition 1500 -1850 Ref: CHT0088

This is a much expanded and revised and re-titled version of an earlier (1981) work by the author, Book of the Home in Britain. Much has been written about aristocratic homes of this period, but this book deals with the kind of furnishings that a smaller or 'middle class' home would have had. A wide range of subjects are covered including heating and lighting, wall coverings, doors and doorways, staircases and colour. Items we take for granted today, e.g. door locks, window glazing, floor boards and wallpaper were all too expensive for the average Tudor householder to contemplate owning. There was much more reliance on what natural products, e.g. clay, could be obtained locally to furnish and colour houses. The author presents a collection of his own line drawings and many photographs of surviving interiors and their details. Much of this material has not been readily available before. 260 pp. 66 colour photographs and 227 b&w photographs and drawings. 8 appendixes and a glossary. HB. 


Price: £45.00
James Ayres, DOMESTIC INTERIORS: The British Tradition 1500 -1850

Quantity:  


R. W. Brunskill, VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE, An Illustrated Handbook 4th ed Ref: CHT9127

An essential guide to the architecture of manor houses, farm houses, cottages, barns, stables, mills, inns, shops, and early industrial buildings. Contents include: Walling-construction and materials; Roofing-shape, construction and materials; Plan and section; Architectural details; Farm buildings; Urban vernacular, minor industrial buildings & chapels; Comparisons & conclusions. Appendix on how to study vernacular architecture; and a glossary. "A must for anyone wishing to restore buildings of this type, or needing ammunition to oppose insensitive planning proposals." CPRE Bulletin. 100s of b&w drawings and photos. pb. 


Price: £20.00
R. W. Brunskill, VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE, An Illustrated Handbook 4th ed

Quantity:  


Cocke, Findlay, Hasley and Williamson.et al. RECORDING A CHURCH: An Illustrated Glossary Ref: CHT9308

This contains over 500 terms forming a comprehensive glossary used to describe church architecture and furniture, amply illustrated with simple and clearly labeled drawings by George Wilson and David Rust. 45 b&w drawings. pb. 


Price: £7.50
Cocke, Findlay, Hasley and Williamson.et al. RECORDING A CHURCH: An Illustrated Glossary

Quantity:  


Comstock, VICTORIAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURAL PLANS AND DETAILS Ref: CHT0025

A book for those interested in restoring, preserving or even recreating Victorian homes. This volume contains many authentic engravings, drawn to scale, of floor plans of various styles: Queen Anne, Elizabethan, Colonial, Jacobean, Southern, Californian and more adapted for Victorian buildings. There are some 734 drawings of doorways, windows, staircases, mouldings, cornices, dormers, fireplaces, finials, gables, mantles, newel posts, porches, transoms, verandas and others. ISBN 0486234429 310 x 235 mm. 96 pp. 734 b&w illustrations. Paperback. 


Price: £8.50
Comstock, VICTORIAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURAL PLANS AND DETAILS

Quantity:  


Pamela Cunnington, CARING FOR OLD HOUSES 2nd edition Ref: CHT0031

This edition revised and updated by Alison Henry contains all the latest information on building legislation, grant availability, conservation services and organisations concerned with the welfare of old buildings. Details of all the practical aspects of house restoration, conversion and repair are covered. 'Should be bought by all who live in or contemplating taking over an old house'. National Trust Magazine. Paperback. 


Price: £14.95
Pamela Cunnington, CARING FOR OLD HOUSES 2nd edition

Quantity:  


Pamela Cunnington, HOW OLD IS THAT CHURCH? Ref: CHT0035

A companion to 'How Old is Your House' and a thorough guide by an architectural historian and Historic Buildings Officer with a lifelong interest in churches. 200 b&w photographs and drawings. Paperback. 


Price: £9.95
Pamela Cunnington, HOW OLD IS THAT CHURCH?

Quantity:  


Pamela Cunnington, HOW OLD IS YOUR HOUSE? Ref: CHT0038

Plenty of information here by an expert architectural historian to give you a date for a house you are about to buy or fix up. Good illustrations. 'An excellent no-nonsense guide' Sunday Telegraph. 55 colour and 60 b&w photographs and 75 drawings. Paperback.  


Price: £12.99
Pamela Cunnington, HOW OLD IS YOUR HOUSE?

Quantity:  


David & Jeanie Stiles, TREE HOUSES You Can Actually Build Ref: CHT0146

Basic designs are given in detail and these designs can be adapted to any set of conditions. A wealth of drawings are shown to illustrate all aspects of construction from choosing the tree, the platform, framing, bracing, floors, walls, roofs, railings, ladders, doors and windows. Throughout there is an emphasis on safety provisions. Many colour plates of finished houses.  


Price: £14.50
David & Jeanie Stiles, TREE HOUSES You Can Actually Build

Quantity:  


Schofield & Smallcombe, COB BUILDINGS. A Practical Guide Ref: CHT0040

This is a practical guide for dealing with the problems inherent in the five methods of building with earth: Cob, earth mixed with straw and water; Clay Lump/Adobe earth made into bricks in a wooden former sometimes with lime; Wattle & Daub, earth covering woven sticks of wood; Rammed Earth or Pise, shuttered dry earth; Stabilized Earth, earth stabilized with cement or hydraulic lime. Details of obtaining planning permission, tools and materials and suppliers Various methods of mixing, new building and repair are all treated in detail. 


Price: £6.95
Schofield & Smallcombe, COB BUILDINGS. A Practical Guide

Quantity:  


Jane Schofield, LIME IN BUILDING. A Practical Guide. 3rd edition Ref: CHT0053

A practical guide intended to give anyone enough information for basic building and decorating work using non-hydraulic lime. The book goes into details of slaking and producing the lime and the application in decorating, restoring and building. Sources for lime and associated products are listed. 


Price: £4.75
Jane Schofield, LIME IN BUILDING. A Practical Guide. 3rd edition

Quantity:  


Paula Sunshine, YOU'VE BEEN TIMBER-FRAMED! Ref: CHT0114

This book is primarily aimed at people who are looking at a timber framed house for the first time either 1) because they are thinking of buying one, 2) having bought one need to renovate it or 3) are intending to build a new timber-framed house themselves; It starts by listing about 20 questions that you should ask yourself when contemplating a purchase and then goes in detail to give a guide as to how you go about asking these questions; from what type of external reference to what do you do about dealing with changes to a listed building.  


Price: £12.99
Paula Sunshine, YOU'VE BEEN TIMBER-FRAMED!

Quantity:  


Paula Sunshine, WATTLE AND DAUB Ref: CHT9346

Wattle and daub can be seen today as the infill between the timbers of timber-framed buildings throughout England. It is one of the oldest building methods in the world used, originally in the most primitive of shelters. Sticks and studs (wattles) and clay and earth (daub). Daub has been used to coat the wattle and fill gaps and keep out rain in winter and heat in the summer and has been known to last for more than 500 years. The author explains some of the mysteries surrounding this material. 


Price: £4.99
Paula Sunshine, WATTLE AND DAUB

Quantity:  


Thomas D. Visser, FIELD GUIDE TO NEW ENGLAND BARNS AND FARM BUILDINGS Ref: CHT0033

The author, an expert in barn preservation, surveys barns in a six state area. Vermont alone it is reckoned that there are some 30,000 barns extant, a number of which are lost to fires and neglect every year. The barns range from 18th century English wooden ones to ice houses. This handbook attempts to document structures and note the surviving architectural evidence. A wealth of photographs and some drawings illustrate these structures. 


Price: £14.50
Thomas D. Visser, FIELD GUIDE TO NEW ENGLAND BARNS AND FARM BUILDINGS

Quantity: