The Cottage in Interwar England

Class and the Picturesque

George Entwistle

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English

Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
25 November 2024

Residential buildings, domestic buildings; History of architecture

Series: Architectural History of the British Isles

The 20 years between First and Second World Wars were a time of dramatic development for English people and their homes. By the end of the 1930s, one family in three was living in an interwar house. But one thing that did not change was the sentimental affection of the English for the idea of the cottage picturesque – a problematic continuity, with class and cultural dimensions, that inflected English domestic architecture long after the theorisation of the Picturesque in the 1790s.

This book explores the powerful hold on the national imagination of cottage architecture in the interwar period and its hitherto under-examined influence on the politics and aesthetics of class, council housing, conservation, and on the 1920s and 1930s boom in speculative house-building. The book examines the relationships between working-class council houses specifically steered away from looking like the cottage picturesque; traditional cottages appropriated by middle-class weekenders, adopted by conservationists, and mythologised by politicians in the 1920s; new-build speculative housing that the public bought (in the 1920s and 1930s) and architects deprecated because it was designed to evoke the cottage; and early modernist houses, celebrated by architects but treated with suspicion by the public because their aesthetics were at odds with the Picturesque tradition.

By: George Entwistle
Imprint: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 250mm, Width: 190mm, Spine: 22mm
ISBN: 9781848226982
ISBN 10: 1848226985
Series: Architectural History of the British Isles
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 25 November 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction; 1. The Cottage Picturesque; 2. The Cottage Contested; 3. The Cottage Denied; 4. The Cottage Appropriated; 5. The Cottage Commercialised; Conclusion

George Entwistle worked at the BBC for 23 years, including stints as editor of Newsnight, launch editor of The Culture Show, head of TV Current Affairs, controller of Factual TV, and Director of Television. Since leaving the BBC, he has worked as a freelance TV executive producer and in the charity sector as a trustee for the Georgian Group and the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. He is currently Vice-Chair of the online visual art charity Art UK. He completed a DPhil (2016-22) in architectural history at Worcester College, University of Oxford.

Reviews for The Cottage in Interwar England: Class and the Picturesque

'an excellent tome ... [which] fills a very large hole in the literature… [and] gains much by the number of illustrations showing drawings with plans' – James Stevens Curl, The Critic