Monmouthshire Houses

Monmouthshire Houses: A Study of Building Techniques and Smaller House-Plans in the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries
Little Pitt Cottage, "the most completely surviving cruck-truss hall house in the county",[1] was typical of the lesser Monmouthshire houses studied by Fox and Raglan.

  • Composed of:
  • Part I Medieval Houses (1951)
  • Part II Sub-Medieval Houses, c. 1550–1610 (1953)
  • Part III Renaissance Houses, c. 1590–1714 (1954)

AuthorSir Cyril Fox & Lord Raglan
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Genre
PublisherNational Museum of Wales
Media typePrint (hardback)

Monmouthshire Houses: A Study of Building Techniques and Smaller House-Plans in the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries is a study of buildings within the county of Monmouthshire written by Sir Cyril Fox and Lord Raglan and published by the National Museum of Wales. The study was published in three volumes; Part I Medieval Houses, Part II Sub-Medieval Houses, c. 1550–1610 and Part III Renaissance Houses, c. 1590–1714, between 1951 and 1954. The series was republished by Merton Priory Press in 1994. A later historian of Welsh architecture, Peter Smith, described Fox and Raglan’s work as equal in importance, in its own field, to Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.

  1. ^ Newman 2000, p. 266.