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Traditional Farm Buildings Of Britain And Their Conservation
Product Description
Traditional designs for British farm buildings, including barns, mills,
pigsties, cowsheds, dovecotes, and other types, originated in the Middle
Ages and developed through the various agricultural revolutions, until the
slump of the 1880s brought an end to new building. Since then changes in
the rural economy have led to buildings designed principally for
professional and commercial activity. But traditional farm buildings still
survive in remarkable numbers, and they form essential elements in the
British landscape of villages and countryside, although they are no longer
appropriate to modern farming. This informative book combines text with
diagrams and specially taken photographs to explain and illustrate the farm
buildings still seen today. It records the origins and uses of traditional
building types, then explores the conflicting demands of conservation and
re-use and the dangers of enthusiastic restorers who may unwittingly
destroy the character of that which they desire to preserve.
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Farm Buildings: Planning and Construction (Practical Farming)
Product Description
Most rural properties have a large number of buildings which should
contrubute to the smooth and efficient running of the farm, but
buildings which are poorly located, inadequately maintained or badly
designed do not help on this score. For example, a badly designed
shearing shed will require extra labour during shearing and reduce the
quality of the job that is done, resulting in a downgrading of the wool
that is being harvested.
The various parts that make up a building are described. From a
structural viewpoint, each part has an important role to play in
ensuring the integrity of the structure; that it serves the purpose it
was designed for, and stands up against the elements. Some of the more
important buildings on farms, both general agricultural and
horticultural, are singled out for specific discussion, as are their
maintenance requirements.
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Traditional Farm Buildings (Discovering)
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Product Description
Farm buildings form an important element in the landscape. In their design
they reflect the differences in types and methods of farming between one
area and another and between different periods of history. A greay many
have been converted to houses or some other use, others have been modified,
or demolished or left to decay. The need to study and record what is left
is therefore very urgent. This book looks at the purely agricultural
buildings in turn, so that each can be recognised, as a barn, a cowhouse, a
stable and so on. The buildings are looked at as you would approach them,
noting first the features visible from outside, then those seen inside, and
only finally the plan. The book also looks, more briefly, at the way
buildings are grouped together.
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Making the Most of Your Farm Buildings: A Guide for Farmers and
Smallholders
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Description
In the modern farming world, farm buildings play a crucially important
role. This well-illustrated book, written by an expert, brings together
information on a wide range of subjects concerning farm buildings and
provides a unique, practical reference source for farmers and smallholders
alike. Topics examined include: the law as it concerns the construction and
environmental impact of farm buildings; traditional and new farm
structures; constructing buildings on the farm using concrete, wood, steel
and other materials; foundations, walls, floors, roofs and frames; water
and electricity supply, lighting and drainage; heating and heat loss from
buildings; natural ventilation, forced ventilations systems, air flow and
the different types of fans that are available; the methods and techniques,
including continuous recording, used to measure temperature, humidity, air
flow and unwanted gases; the conversion of existing farm buildings into
structures with new uses; and health and safety.
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Field Guide to New England Barns and Farm Buildings (Library of New
England)
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following is an excerpt from a review in Vernacular Architecture Newsletter,
Feb. 1999.
The outbuildings of rural dwellings have customarily received less attention
than the dwellings themselves. The fields of architectural history and historic
preservation have long focused on dwellings, for such reasons as their sheer
abundance and the fact that they may have been repositories of the fanciest and
trendiest architectural detail. But visitors to rural areas will often find that a
farmstead's ensemble of outbuildings may overshadow the dwelling in size, number,
or visual prominence. The outbuildings reflect past activities of people and
animals, and connect the dwelling to the system of fields, fences, driveways, and
other farmscape elements.
Thomas D. Visser, Associate Professor and Interim Director of the Historic
Preservation Program at the University of Vermont, recognizes that barns and other
outbuildings are far more important than as mere picturesque elements of the rural
landscape. From the massive barn to the lowly privy, "each has a story to tell." In
his Field Guide to New England Barns and Farm Buildings, Visser provides "clues for
deciphering the many layers of history spread over the rural landscape... to help
observers... realize the wonderful insights that can spring from an understanding
of the evolution of our rural heritage."
Visser's book may be used two ways, as a reference book and as a handy, portable
field guide. It stands alone as a good concise history of New England farm
buildings with an understandable concentration on barns, the most necessary
structure of a farmstead other than the dwelling. The specific fieldwork for this
volume took two years and was concentrated in areas preselected for their
relevance. The fieldwork not only made possible this excellent guide to
identifying, understanding, and appreciating farm buildings, but recorded a
dwindling cultural resource. Visser has for years encouraged the preservation of
barns, building interest among their owners. This book, it is hoped, by increasing
awareness of these often neglected structures, will advance the cause of their
preservation.
The Field Guide to New England Barns and Farm Buildings will prove informative
and entertaining to a wide audience, from agricultural historians to New England
residents who haven't truly appreciated the value of farm buildings as cultural
resources.
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