RCHME survey staff carried out a study of the houses of the gentry in 1991. The publication 'Houses of the Gentry 1480-1680' published in 1999, was written by Nicholas Cooper for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Architecture in association with English Heritage. The series comprises six buildings files, circa 1000 other files which have not be catalogued, and circa 300 publication drawings. The uncatalogued files include research documents, correspondence and notes and are arranged in boxes as follows:
Box 1: Avon, Bedfordshire, Berkshire Box 2: Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire Box 3: Cheshire, Cleveland Box 4: Cornwall, Cumbria Box 5: Norfolk Box 6: Northamptonshire, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire Box 7: Derbyshire, Devon Box 8: Dorset, Durham, Essex Box 9: Gloucestershire Box 10: Hampshire, Hereford & Worcester, Hertfordshire Box 11: Humberside, Isle of Wight, Isle of Man, Kent, Lancashire Box 12: Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, London, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, West Midlands Box 13: Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Isles of Scilly Box 14: Somerset, Staffordshire Box 15: Suffolk, Surrey Box 16: Sussex, Tyne & Wear, Warwickshire Box 17: Wiltshire Box 18: Yorkshire Box 19: Miscellaneous material
The uncatalogued files were acquired from Survey of London offices in 2002.
This is part of the Collection: RCH01 Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME) Archive
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