Marcus Patton Book Bundle (Hard Back)

Get The Bedside Book of Dormers and Other Delights (Hard Back) and Central Belfast-An Historical Gazetteer (2nd Edition, Hard Back) for £30! Two hard back books for the great value price of £30 saving you £10.

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The bundle includes:

The Bedside Book of Dormers and Other Delights (Hard Back): A Guide to Traditional Architectural Details in Ulster

By Marcus Patton (2011)

210mm x 210mm, 348 pages with 1,500 Colour photographs

Arranged by building element, this is a pictorial analysis of existing (and some lost) details that will provide a source of reference to building owners and architects trying to restore missing details on historic properties. From bargeboards to windows via the dormers of the title and much more, the many photographs included here give a flavour of the visual delights available to those with eyes to see as they travel through the towns and villages of Ulster.

The illustrations are accompanied by explanatory, perceptive and often witty comments, which set each detail in its architectural and geographical context. This unique and fascinating book is essential reading for owners, students, architects, planners and anyone who has an interest in, or an appreciation of, local architecture. In particular it draws attention to those details that contribute so much to our sense of place and architectural identity and which, when lost or inappropriately replaced, can destroy the integrity of a building.

Central Belfast-An Historical Gazetteer (2nd Edition, Hard Back)

By Marcus Patton

In the course of the course of the 19th century, Belfast grew from a small port to the largest and most prosperous city in Ireland: during that period its population increased at a rate faster than that of any other city in the British Isles, and it became arguably the most completely Victorian city as a result. Despite an appalling rate of attrition of this legacy during recent decades, as a result of roads blight, planning policies, short-sighted redevelopment and terrorism, a significant heritage of fine buildings still survives and is increasingly appreciated.

Bluebell Entry and Pepper-Hill Court may have gone (just as well, from the point of view of their inhabitants), and recent years have seen the demolition of the Grand Central Hotel, the Kitchen Bar and the Ulster Club, but the Grand Opera House and the Crown Bar remain to dazzle the Belfast sightseer, while many linen warehouses and commercial buildings of the late Victorian period demonstrate the vigour and determination of this remarkable city.

This extensively enlarged and updated edition of the book covers the city centre in detail, street by street and often building by building, describing not only what is there now but also, tantalisingly, what has gone. This is a fascinating and often amusing tour of the social history and architecture of Belfast.

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