Period Houses, A Conservation Guidance Manual
Compiled By Frank Keohane
If you love the historic buildings around Dublin, and Ireland in general, you may enjoy this book just as much. Published by The Dublin Civic Trust, this book gets into the architecture, the principles, and philosophies of conservation, and then focuses on the defects that can occur in historic properties, and the methods and practices for remediation in accordance with the principles of conservation. It covers all manner of defects from neoclassical door fan lights, to canted bay windows, efflorescence, to rococo embellished joinery.
Professional Surveyors to interested amateurs, and period building owners might enjoy and benefit from this book.
