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Additional information about the Romano-British villa at Woodham's Farm was discovered whilst researching the villas at Sparsholt and Twyford. Amongst the Sparsholt material held by the late David Johnston was an envelope containing coins from Woodham's Farm. Similarly, amongst the Twyford paper archive held by Martin Biddle was a letter from Mr. W. H. Blake of Woodham's Farm to Lieut. Colonel Montague dated 14th September 1925. The letter briefly described his excavation of the site and contains a sketch of the exposed ground plan of parts of the villa. This short report is based on the information held by Winchester Museum Services (History File ARCH 296). It documents the discoveries found and attempts to put the Romano-British Villa at Woodham's Farm into a regional context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Burmington Manor is a stone-walled aisled manor house with a timber arcade and timber posts for the central truss of the open hall. It also includes a high end first-floor chamber lit by a twelfth-century stone window. Its date has hitherto been uncertain, but has now been determined as 1194/5d. This was a little later than expected from its primitive carpentry. The main discovery from our further examination is that the central arcade posts are in two parts, the upper sections tenoned into sockets in the top of the capitals. The high end chamber was previously thought to be contained within a crosswing; this is now uncertain and the building may have continued in line with the twelfth-century window in a dormer. The unusual face-splayed scarf joint in the arcade plate has also been closely examined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article offers a case-study of an early preservation campaign to save the remains of the fifteenth-century Crosby Hall in Bishopsgate, London, threatened with demolition in 1830, in a period before the emergence of national bodies dedicated to the preservation of historic monuments. It is an unusual and early example of a successful campaign to save a secular building. The reasons why the Hall's fate attracted the interest of antiquaries, architects, and campaigners are analysed in the context of the emergence of historical awareness of the domestic architecture of the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, as well as wider recognition of the importance of this period for Britain's urban and commercial development. The Hall's associations with Richard III and other historic figures, including Thomas More and Thomas Gresham, are shown to have been particularly important in generating wider public interest, thereby allowing the campaigners to articulate the importance of the Hall in national terms. The history of Crosby Hall illuminates how a discourse of national heritage emerged from the inherited tradition of eighteenth-century antiquarianism and highlights the importance of the social, professional, and familial networks that sustained proactive attempts to preserve the nation's monuments and antiquities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Housing history has been part of the mix of articles in The London Journal from its inception in 1975. The housing articles cover a wide period of London's history from early modern times to the contemporary city, and they track the major changes in historical method and sources that have become available over the last forty years. As has been noted by others, the contemporary has fallen out of the coverage, which is a pity since the housing debate in the capital has become more insistent, and it would seem that housing history has much to offer, not in the way of answers, but with strategies from the past for dealing with a perennial and intransigent problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The stereotype of the gay man as arbiter of domestic style and design is widely recognized. Robin Williams humorously referenced this in a joke: "We had gay burglars the other night," he notes, "They broke in and rearranged the furniture." What remains unclear is the ways in which stereotypes relate to the lives of ordinary people and the homes they inhabit. This article brings together the idiosyncrasies of queer design that circulate at a number of levels in a mainly transatlantic discourse--thanks to We help of mass media, television programs, and a niche of scholarly literature--with a study of ordinary homes belonging to lesbian, gay. bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) lives in a global city. It is argued that this wider queer aesthetic penetrates everyday space and shapes homes in complicated ways; there is a tension between these two domains. The empirical research draws from in-depth semi-structured interviews with Londoners gathered as part of a larger project on sexual minority identity at home in London, UK. Looking to these domestic case studies allows for a spatialized reading that challenges celebrated and exclusive interiors. Offering a timely and distinct architectural approach looking to the everyday users of ordinary domestic space aims to modestly move in another direction towards a model of diversity, opening up queer domesticity and sexual minority identity to multiple representations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In most regions of England in the medieval period there was a strong overlap between the carpentry traditions employed in churches and domestic buildings. While some forms of assembly may be the exclusive preserve of either the ecclesiastical or secular spheres, certain technologies are common to both. In the south-west of England, extending into the southern Marches and South Wales, however, the two are entirely different - wagon or cradle roofs are found only in churches, never in vernacular domestic structures, which normally adopt a variant of cruck construction. Little systematic analysis has been done on church roofs, mainly because they are difficult to access. The chronological range of wagon roofs in the South-West has normally been placed in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. The firm dating of the two wagon roofs of St James's Priory, Bristol, has pushed the conventional range back to the mid-fourteenth century, and other examples in the region may be considerably earlier. This paper uses the Bristol roofs to speculate about the origins of the wagon roof type and the reasons why it remained an exclusively ecclesiastical form. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the villa of the eccentric Richard (Dickie) Bateman in Windsor, England during the second half of the 18th century. An overview of his friendship with art historian Horace Walpole, including in regard to their homosexuality, is provided. Bateman's villa as an embodiment of Gothic architecture is discussed. An overview of the Chinese influence on Bateman's designs is provided.

Design control through the planning application process is not well understood and is not practised consistently. Similarly, wider urban design decisions and policies within town planning locally, ranging from development briefs to development plan policies on urban design, are made in a varied manner, often without reference to urban design principles. The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) (2012) presents an opportunity to provide coherent guidance on urban design principles that should be applied locally. The NPPF, and reactions to its potential to address urban design issues, are examined, partly through primary data from urban design experts and community organisations. Literature relating to planning governance and urban design policy making is also considered in terms of the potential place of the NPPF in relation to urban design matters. A consensus emerged that certain urban design principles and tools should be included in the NPPF, or as a supplement to it, with a degree of prescription but without providing detail more appropriately covered at the local level. Although the NPPF reiterates some key points from previous guidance on urban design, and is prescriptive with a requirement for local design review panels, the lack of reference to some well recognised urban design principles and tools indicates a supplement may be needed to strengthen the urban design message in the NPPF as a key national policy document. The tension between shifting power to local levels and simultaneously producing useful national policy is likely to a problem facing many governments worldwide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a research study which aims to examine how an urban agriculture (UA) landscape, existing and imaginary, may challenge the ideas of authorship and design in London, England. The research was drawn from 32 participatory walks with 150 visitors and residents to east London that composed a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) research in September 2010 and August 2011. A preliminary stage was conducted in June 2010, noting open spaces, such as car parks, waste ground, grassed areas on housing estates and parks. The study shows that the landscape of the study is ordinary and absent are the ground gestures of heritage sites or signature architecture.

The focus of this paper is ventilation in traditional dwellings, specifically with reference to English Heritage's 'rule of thumb' for historic buildings, which is that it should be 'twice the normal level of ventilation'. Examination of the subject has taken place through a literature review and the empirical case studies of two groups of unimproved dwellings.' The paper considers the ventilation of traditional buildings using the breakdown on the subject offered by the Building Regulations document for new build dwellings in England and Wales - Approved Document F. Where occupancy patterns are available, as with the case study on Fitz Steps, Cumbria, the validity of the rule of thumb is questioned. The paper will also show that, for the dwellings studied as a whole, lower air permeability results than orthodoxy would suggest were recorded, with common infiltration points between properties. There was also some evidence of modern extensions being less airtight than the original dwelling. A wide variation in measured air flow relating to chimneys was noted, raising questions over the air flow figures for this type of dwelling used in SAP (Standard Assessment Procedure) for the energy assessment of buildings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The housing projects designed by Camden borough council in London in the period 1965-73 when Sydney Cook was borough architect-which include Fleet Road, Alexandra Road, Highgate New Town, Branch Hill and Maiden Lane-are internationally recognised as being among the most important housing schemes of the past half century, providing a model for low-rise high-density urban housing that is still relevant today. Yet the programme of which these projects were the outcome has received scant attention from historians. This paper, which is the first published output from an ongoing research project, explores the institutional and organisational structures from which these projects emerged. Drawing on archival and other primary sources as well as interviews with many of the principal figures involved, it shows how the new borough, created under the 1963 London Government Act, developed the legacy of its constitutive boroughs-Hampstead, Holborn and St Pancras-and how Camden's exceptional position, in terms of both wealth and location, was used by Sydney Cook to attract leading designers from London's architectural world, including young graduates from the Architectural Association and elsewhere, to undertake a re-think of the design of inner-city housing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is about state-market relations in speculative housebuilding, with specific reference to the means by which higher quality design can be achieved in new residential develop- merits. Applying the concept of opportunity space, we investigate the extent to which form-based/design codes change developers' opportunity space both in absolute terms and vis-à-vis the opportunity space of designers. We interrogate this using evidence from a major design-coded residential development in the southeast of England, drawing on interviews with housebuilders. We conclude that design codes have the potential to transform the market context for new housebuilding, but that the typical housebuilder has yet to be convinced of their business advantages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the construction of 45-storey Strata SE1 tower housing, the first in-house wind generator in the Elephant and Castle district in south London, England. It looks into the various stages of its structural design and completion of construction. It notes that the tower housing is considered a truly integrated design requiring a full collaboration between client, contractors and various design team members.

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The article reviews the exhibition "Seizure: The Id and Ego in Domestic Space" at Harper Road, London, England from September to November 2008 and July 2009 to January 2010.

In the U.K. there is a housing crisis: this paper presents a new research study taking place at the University of Salford dedicated to the systemic seamless delivery of sustainable housing: 'G-Tech'. There has been much research in this area but with very little uptake of outcomes from industry, which is what this study aims to counter. The study considers all the relevant drivers such as government policy, an ageing population, demand, regional growth, sustainability and global warming with the intention to provide a systemic multi-level, multi actor innovation framework providing a full 'service' from the concept of need through to demolition and reuse. One of the studies main objectives is to alter stakeholder mindsets, remove the barriers and encourage greater adoption of the sustainable dwelling. The study will align sustainable homes to meet all the requirements set out by the triple bottom line of sustainability encompassing social, economical and environmental issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Urban buildings have been largely ignored in the debate over the 'Great Rebuilding' of vernacular houses in 16th- and 17th-century England and in Matthew Johnson's influential thesis of 'closure'. This paper reviews the extensive archaeological evidence (from both standing buildings and excavations) for houses in post-medieval Norwich, focusing on the dwellings of the prosperous 'middling sort'. Norwich experienced a significant period of housing development between the late 15th and mid-16th centuries, with rebuilding continuing through the later 16th and 17th centuries. Accordingly, the concept of 'closure' must be adapted to incorporate the distinctive character and chronology of urban buildings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study discusses the shifting reception of Italian Catholic religious paintings in the private chapels of English country houses. It first investigates how the practice of art collecting and patronage informs the strategies deployed by the English aristocracy to expunge from these pictures all Catholic overtones. It moves on to assess the impact of this ideological reinterpretation on works of art, whose original religious message was thus gradually displaced. The article concludes that these paintings came, effectively, to extol a religiosity of splendour, representative of a desire to glorify both the host's good taste and God's greatness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The seventeenth century saw the dramatic growth of book collections, as books became a desirable commodity. The ruling classes used books to strengthen their political, social and intellectual hegemony, and the reading and collection of books was perceived as indicative of a range of virtues. At the same time, English society was increasingly receptive to new architectural ideas from the continent, and building and furnishing houses was a popular way of expressing morality and magnificence. This article identifies the relationship between patterns of reading, and the arrangement and architectural setting of book collections. Private libraries were a relative innovation, and the variety of approaches to accommodating them within the home often reflects the personal implications was conducted in the same terms used to debate the worth of reading and knowledge, and architectural display was a useful means of advertising an educated persona. The use of architectural style is also examined, since different motifs and stylistic approaches were attributed with different meanings, which related to shared ideas about knowledge, and its place within society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A geometrical analysis of the meander decorative patterns on a Roman pavement mosaic found at the Roman villa in Chedworth, UK, is presented. The analysis reveals that the intricate swastika meander pattern consisting of four closed curves could easily have been constructed using a very simple hypothesized algorithm. The algorithm also explains the design of Roman swastika meanders found throughout the Roman Empire. Connections are indicated between these patterns and the sona traditional art of Angola as well as the kolam traditional art of Tamil South India. The analysis and algorithm described have applications to the classification of geometric mosaic patterns, the design of new patterns and the reconstruction of mosaics that have been partially destroyed by the ravages of time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Habitations of the Labourer by the English architect John Wood the Younger was the first architectural treatise and pattern book to address the dwelling of the rural labourer: the cottage. Wood combined the order and regularity of neoclassical design with a programme of humanitarian reform, centred upon material and structural standards, within the context of agricultural improvement and Britain's nascent rural capital economy: a regular improved cottage for a regulated improved landscape. Wood's rational approach to social reform and cottage design distinguishes the cottages described in Habitations of the Labourer from the irregular vernacular dwellings, material decay and rural poverty presented in the picturesque-cottage pattern books that dominated the late-Georgian architectural press. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article turns the spotlight from the architectural aspects of London's suburban villas to their social and economic aspects, and from the few celebrated villas to villas in general, including the many architecturally undistinguished ones. It also brings into the story the vast suburban mansions of the sixteenth to early eighteenth centuries. It examines the distribution of villas around London, the chronology of their development, the nature of their occupants, how common it was to have a villa, and how villas were used. The changing character of villas in the eighteenth century is noted. The characterisation of villas as summer residences is refined, revealing a more complex picture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In an increasingly globalized world, national governments appropriate vernacular building traditions to support national identity-building political agendas. In England the neo-traditional house has become an established feature of suburban architecture. This is not, however, as is often assumed, indicative of the nostalgia of the consumer. Rather, neo-traditionalism is the result of planning policies introduced by the government to preserve regional architectural identities and maintain a visual “Englishness” in the built environment. These policies have, in turn, been undermined by the nationwide standardization of “traditional” designs by national house-building companies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is increasingly recognised that religion was the mainspring of pre-Reformation domestic ritual in royal as well as episcopal and archiepiscopal households. This article sets out to examine the architectural consequences of this. It argues that from the mid-15th century a small group of high-status residential buildings was planned around the need for lavish liturgical display, particularly the introduction of a cloister. The patrons of such buildings were churchmen of the highest rank such as Henry Beaufort and Thomas Wolsey who, it is argued, had special requirements for their principal residences. These requirements subsequently went on to influence the plans of early Tudor royal palaces, culminating in the reconstruction of Whitehall Palace by Henry VIII in the 1540s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The extensive wall-paintings at Bumpit are an important example of decoration in a late-Elizabethan-period house. They date to the last part of the 16th century and formed part of a very extensive scheme of building and embellishment. The house and its paintings are described in detail to provide a record of this important ensemble, and the characteristics of the paintings discussed to enable them to be seen in a wider context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A key aspect of planning for the future housing supply in rural areas of England is the demographic context of an ageing society. Older people have a very diverse range of aspirations and needs in relation to their housing and wider sense of well-being. Planning is part of a wider policy response to facilitate a range of housing options for older people, including age-specific housing and in the mainstream housing stock. A key factor in responding to future aspirations and needs is the design of new housing. The government has signalled its intention to move towards the application of lifetime homes standards to all new housing in the future, firstly by encouraging take up of these design standards in the private sector, but with the option to review progress and the possible need for regulation in 2013. This very positive policy development would help to enable older people to exercise greater choice and control over their circumstances. However, a consideration of the prospects for increasing the supply of housing with higher design standards in small rural communities suggests a very slow pace of change in the housing stock. In addition, therefore, there needs to be a more immediate focus on other policies to address the challenges facing an ageing society in the countryside. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information on tourist sights in Hampstead Heath and Village in London, England is presented. The Regency and Georgian houses in this village are just 20 minutes by Tube from Piccadilly Circus. Along Flask Walk, a pedestrian mall, is a palatable mix of historic pubs, toyshops, and chic boutiques. Fenton House is on the west side of Hampstead Grove, just north of Hampstead Village. Freud Museum features rooms with original furniture, letters, photographs, paintings, and the personal effects of Freud and his daughter, Anna.

The article presents the history of the Salisbury House, located in London, England. Particular attention is given to the house's history between the years of 1599 to 1694. Salisbury House was the Strand Palace of architect Sir Robert Cecil. Information about Salisbury House's construction is provided. The challenge of relating the documentary evidence in the Hatfield House archives to the two surviving sets of designs created in 1600 and 1602 is discussed. A critical examination of the visual representations of Salisbury House in 17th-century views of London is also presented.

In the decades following the re-erection of the Crystal Palace in Sydenham, its management grappled with the pressures for an enabling development of middle-class villas to offset the mounting expenses associated with their 'moral enterprise'. Although the financial problems of the Crystal Palace Company are noted in the various and plentiful histories of the Park, its involvement in the creation of a park villa housing development has been neglected. Yet it was in houses such as these that the Victorian middle-class 'ideal' of domesticity and family roles was lived out. However, unlike other designed parks, the villas were not included in the initial park design and in villa development terms were constructed relatively late — in the 1870s. As a consequence, this microcosm of villas and values was short-lived, as by the early twentieth century, such large residences were increasingly considered too large and costly to run. This article seeks to restore this foray into housing development to the history of the Crystal Palace Company and its Park and place this, its other moral enterprise, in the context of broader economic and social changes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The complexity of the sustainable-development policy goal is such that policy makers are searching for tools to enable them to evaluate and develop policy directions. To date, ecological footprinting has been used mainly for raising awareness of environmental impacts but it also has considerable potential as a policy tool, enabling policy makers in their strategic work. The paper presents an application of a specific ecological footprinting development, the REAP (Resource and Energy Analysis Programme) tool, to a current policy issue, the promotion of sustainable construction. Using the London Plan of the Greater London Authority as a case study, it considers the strengths and weaknesses of this approach and how it can contribute to policy development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article the author examines Forty Hall, a house constructed in the 17th century on the outskirts of London, England. The central focus of the article is elements in the design of the building. The author contends that the exterior of the dwelling appeared to be ahead of its time, incorporating classical elements before they were in style, while continuing several traditions of English domestic architecture. Other questions are addressed including the possibility that the house was designed by Inigo Jones, an architect of the era, and the place of Forty Hall in architectural history.

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The article explains the concepts behind Archadia Chartered Architects' award-winning design for New Larchwood, an extra care housing scheme developed by Hanover Housing Association in partnership with Brighton and Hove City Council in England. The council aims to bring dignity through design to its residents. It is stated that the New Larchwood is the third extra care project to be completed under the Department of Health's (DH) scheme providing funding for accommodation for older people. The building provides 38 self-contained flats, together with communal spaces that facilitate socializing and allow care to be delivered to people in response to their needs. It is concluded that the people can live with dignity in the project until the very end of their lives.