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The influence of craftsmen on the design of country houses and on urban development c.1720–1820: a case study of a market town and its surrounding country houses. Between c.1720 and 1770, a considerable number of country houses were modernised, either by rebuilding the entire property or making major changes. Craftsmen clearly played a significant role in the styling of new work as well as in its construction. A selection of houses will be used to illustrate this. The work seemed to dry up and so in the 1780s – 1820 enterprising craftsmen became important players in the layout, design and development of housing in what was a building boom fuelled partly by wealth generated from providing services for soldiers involved in the Napoleonic Wars, in some cases laying out new suburbs, the quality of the houses depending on the craftsmen’s perception of the market. In some market town’s, much stands today. A memorial to their entrepreneurial endeavours.

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