The English House: A History in Eight Buildings

This is the story of the superbly elegant early eighteenth-century Pallant House in Chichester.

It’s the story of 19 Princelet Street in Spitalfields, built for a Huguenot silk-weaver and later transformed into a synagogue. It’s also the story of a row of modest two-up, two-down houses in Toxteth, a block of flats in London’s East End, and what Ideal Home magazine in 1926 called Britain’s “first modern house” — in Northampton.

Together, these buildings reveal how English homes have evolved ...