This course will cover the domestic house from the early middle ages and the barons castle, through the jettied half-timbered structures remaining today in such towns as Canterbury and York, the introduction of brick buildings displaying classical influence in the 17th century at all social levels, the Palladian influence in the 18th century on mansions and town development such as Bath, Edinburgh, Brighton and Cheltenham; the battle of styles between the classical and gothick revival, and the rise of the brick terraces in the industrial towns of the 19th century.
The course concludes with a look at Metroland and Southern Electric middle class urban expansion, post war prefabs and the success and failure of high-rise development from Roehampton to the present day London Docklands where warehouses have been turned into our modern 'domestic castles'.