A History of the South Yorkshire Countryside by Hey David

Author:Hey, David
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bisac Code 1: HIS015000; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
ISBN: 9781473857360
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2015-05-29T16:00:00+00:00

The villages on the magnesian limestone were built in local stone, but pantiles replaced thatch as the roofing material. These nineteenth-century houses in the lower part of Hooton Pagnell are typical in their use of a course or two of heavy coal-measure sandstone slates to prevent wind and rain from penetrating the roof space.

The bricks that were used in these early centuries were hand made. In Yorkshire, they vary in colour from the orange-red of Burton Agnes Hall, near Bridlington, to the dull browns of the central Vale of York, depending on the nature of the local clays and the methods used in the firing process. They gave each district a distinctive character. With the coming of the canals and the railways all this changed. The new rows of terraced houses that were uniformly built with machine-made bricks and Welsh blue slate roofs looked much the same wherever they were erected.

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