Publications

Vernacular Architecture

The Group produces a refereed journal of national standing - Vernacular Architecture - the authoritative voice on the subject. It ranges over the whole field, nationally and internationally, reporting the results of recent research or reconsidering accepted views. It carries numerous reviews and also includes annual lists of buildings for which tree-ring dates have been obtained.

All members automatically receive a copy of Vernacular Architecture. Non-members may subscribe via Maney Publishing.

Contents of the latest volume: Vernacular Architecture 38 (2007)

'Confining the vernacular: the seventeenth-century origins of a mode of study' by Adrian Green
The origins of crucks:
'New ideas revisited' by Nick Hill
'A rejoinder' by Nat Alcock
'W G Hoskins's 'Great Rebuilding' and dendrochronology in Hampshire' by Edward Roberts
'The unit system revisted: dual domestic planning and the developmental cycle of the family' by Richard Suggett
'A three-dimensional, timber-framed encyclopaedia of geometrical carpentry design' by Laurie Smith
'No 173 High Street, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire: an analysis of a thirteenth-century urban timber-framed building' by Mike Dunn, Adrian Gibson and James Moir
'Clay-walled houses in Norfolk: some comments' by John McCann
'Traditional earthen construction and repair methods in Sardinia, Italy' by Enrico Fodde
'Service space in Savannah' by Jeffrey E Klee
'Bayesian buildings: an introduction for the numerically challenged' by Alex Bayliss
'Rev Thomas Bayes: Get ready to wiggle' - Baysian modelling, radiocarbon wiggle-matching, and the north wing of Baguley Hall' by W Derek Hamilton, Alex Bayliss, Adam Menuge, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, and Gordon Cook
Tree-ring dates
Book reviews

Contents of some back issues

It is the intention to digitise all Vernacular Architecture back numbers in due course. In the meantime, a list of contents of back issues (not comprehensive) illustrates the subject matter covered by the journal.

Some papers from earlier volumes of Vernacular Architecture:

'The building of the clay dabbins of the Solway Plain: materials and man-hours' by Nina Jennings, VA 33 (2002), 19-27.

'Display, status and the vernacular tradition' by Nicholas Cooper, VA 33 (2002), 28-33.

'Detached kitchens in Eastern-Sussex' by David & Barbara Martin, VA 29 (1998), 85-91.
This has since been the subject of further discussion:

'Detached kitchens or adjoining houses?' by J T Smith, VA 32 (2001), 16-19 and
'Detached kitchens or adjoining houses? - a response' by David & Barbara Martin, VA 32 (2001), 20-33.

'History and Vernacular Architecture' by Christopher Dyer, VA 28 (1997), 1-8.

'Smoke bay or open hall?' by N W Alcock, VA 29 (1998), 82-84.

'Tree-Ring Dating: a Review' by Sarah Pearson, VA 28 (1997), 25-39.

Updated in The Chronological Distribution of Tree-Ring Dates, 1980-2001: an update by Sarah Pearson, VA 32 (2001), 68-69.

'Late 12th and early 13th century aisled buildings: a comparison' by John Walker, VA 30 (1999), 21-53 (an important paper discussing many of the earliest timber-framed buildings that survive in England).
Part 1: General Discussion
Part 2: Details
Part 3 3: More details and Bibliography