Yorkshire Buildings

Yorkshire Buildings is the annual journal containing articles, reports of buildings surveyed and news of related activities. The Yorkshire Buildings Editorial Team can be contacted by email at editor@yvbsg.org.uk. The most recent edition is No 50, 2022, published April 2024.

Yorkshire Buildings No 50, 2022 (£4 - IN STOCK)

• Fifty years of Building Recording: YVBSG at 50 - David Cant
• Setting the Scene: Doncaster - Tony Robinson
• Building Recording in the Doncaster Area 22-25 September 2022 - Tony Robinson
• The Todmorden Countryside: Eastwood Onwards - Peter Burton and Kevin Illingworth
• The Ogee: its historic use - Malcolm Birdsall
• Vernacular Houses of Wensleydale - David Cook
• Other buildings recorded - Tony Robinson
• Building Reports 2021

Yorkshire Buildings No 49, 2021 (£4 - IN STOCK)

• Third Thursday Talks - Tony Robinson
• Informing change in a building at risk: a new survey at Broadbottom - Colum Giles and David Cant
• Opening up the Archive - David Cook
• The Todmorden Countryside: Cross Stone and Eastwood - Kevin Illingworth
• Other buildings recorded - Tony Robinson
• Building Reports 2020

Yorkshire Buildings No 48, 2020 (£4 - IN STOCK)

• Hallamshire and the Dark Peak - a Sheffield Taster - Tony Robinson
• Recording Hallamshire and the Dark Peak - Tony Robinson
• Day School 2020 - Extraordinary Yorkshire Buildings
• In the Footsteps of Robert Hird: A Walk around Bedale - Tony Robinson
• A walk around Horton in Ribblesdale - Kevin Illingworth
• Other buildings recorded in 2019 - Tony Robinson
• Building Reports 2019

Yorkshire Buildings No 47, 2019 (£4 - IN STOCK)

• A Rotherham Taster - Tony Robinson
• Best of Rotherham: recording vernacular buildings in the Rotherham area - Tony Robinson
• Day School 2019 - Building Our Knowledge
• Pushing the bounds: a tree-ring dating programme around Ingleborough - Alison Armstrong and David S Johnson
• A walk in the Forest of Bowland: the Dunsop Bridge area - Kevin Illingworth
• Other buildings recorded in 2018 - Tony Robinson
• Building Reports 2018

Yorkshire Buildings No 46, 2018 (£4 - IN STOCK)

• South Yorkshire: setting the scene - Peter Thornborrow
• A Barnsley Taster - Peter Thornborrow
• The best of Barnsley: recording vernacular buildings in the Barnsley area - Tony Robinson
• Day School Autumn 2017 - South Yorkshire vernacular and Barnsley's best buildings - Tony Robinson
• A visit to Bolton-by-Bowland - Kevin Illingworth
• Day School 2018 - Town and Country: vernacular buildings in the Yorkshire landscape - Tony Robinsopn
• Other buildings recorded - Tony Robinson
• Ingleby Manor, Ingleby Greenhow - David Cook
• A Northallerton walkabout - Tony Robinson
• Building Reports 2017

Yorkshire Buildings No 45, 2017 (£4 - IN STOCK)

• The Beverley Project - David Cook
• The East Riding Hearth Tax and the Buildings of East Yorkshire - David and Susan Neave
• The Vernacular Buildings of Beverley - Tony Robinson
• Other Buildings Recorded in Beverley - Tony Robinson
• Day School, March 2017 - House and Home
• A Visit to Stephen Park Farmhouse and Local Buildings, Forest of Bowland - Kevin Illingworth
• Other Buildings Recorded in 2016 - Tony Robinson
• Walkabouts in Brompton and Romanby, Northallerton - Tony Robinson
• Recording Urban Buildings - Tony Robinson
• Book Review - Tony Robinson
• Building Reports 2016

Yorkshire Buildings No 44, 2016 (£4 - IN STOCK)

• Buildings of Beverley before 1700 - Susan Neave
• Recent Building Recording in Beverley and District - Shaun Richardson
• The Vernacular Buildings of Beverley - Tony Robinson
• Day School, 12 March 2016 - Inns and Public Houses
• A Visit to Royds Hall Farm, Bradford and Wilsden Village - Kevin Illingworth
• Other Buildings Recorded in 2015 - Tony Robinson
• Recording Urban Buildings - Tony Robinson
• Building Reports 2015

Yorkshire Buildings No 43, 2015 (£4 - IN STOCK)

• In Memory of Barbara Hutton
• Sedbergh: An Introduction - June Hall
• The Vernacular Buildings of Sedbergh - Tony Robinson
• Final Thoughts on Sedbergh: The Tolhurst Bursaries - Sophia Godfrey and Chris Scurfield
• Day School, 14 March 2015 - Early Town Buildings and Their Constructional Materials
• A Walk Around Barningham, 28 June 2014
• A Visit to the Heptonstall Area and the Colden Valley - Kevin Illingworth
• A Walk Around Osmotherley, Mount Grace Priory and Hutton Rudby, 7 September 2014 - Tony Robinson
• Westfield Cottage, Thornton Dale - Barry Harrison
• Other Buildings Recorded in 2014
• Book Review

Yorkshire Buildings No 42, 2014 (£4 - IN STOCK)

• Spen Valley: Setting the Scene - Gill Cookson
• The Vernacular Buildings of the Spen Valley - Tony Robinson
• Day School, 15 March 2014 - Beyond the Building: Further Sources for Interpretation and Understanding
• Late Seventeenth Century Vernacular Architecture of Austwick: The Documentary Evidence - Michael Pearson
• A Visit to Austwick, 23 June 2013 - Kevin Illingworth
• A Visit to Causeway Farm and cruck barn, Hoghton - Kevin Illingworth
• A Walk Around Whitby, 28 July 2013 - Tony Robinson
• Great Broughton Revisited - Tony Robinson
• Barns in Kettlewell Parish: What Survives from the Seventeenth Century? - Patricia Carroll
• Other Buildings Recorded in 2013

Yorkshire Buildings No 41, 2013 (£4 - IN STOCK)

• Tony Tolhurst: an Appreciation - Barry Harrison
• An Introduction to Great Broughton and District - Tony Robinson
• The Vernacular Buildings of Great Broughton - Tony Robinson
• Day School, 16 March 2013: Owt Fresh?
• A Visit to Winewall and Worsthorne, 21 July 2012 - Kevin Illingworth
• A Visit to Lawkland and Clapham, 5 August 2012 - Kevin Illingworth
• All at Sea in Ribblesdale: Battersby Barn - Tony Robinson
• Field and Village Barns of Kettlewell
• Low Hall, Kettlewell
• Other Buildings Recorded in 2012
• Book Review - Tony Robinson

Yorkshire Buildings No 40, 2012 (£4 - SOLD OUT)

• Long Preston - an Historical Introduction - Tony Stephens
• The Vernacular Houses of Long Preston - Tony Robinson
• The Barns of Long Preston - Alison Armstrong
• Recording Day at Carlton in Coverdale - Tony Robinson
• The Old Hall, Carlton in Coverdale - a summary
• How Yorkshire Became Polite
• Other Buildings Recorded in 2011
• Knaresborough and its Early Buildings - Tony Robinson
• A Visit to Bashall Hall and Browsholme Hall - Kevin Illingworth

Yorkshire Buildings No 39, 2011 (£4 - IN STOCK)

• The Buildings of Beverley - an introduction - Barry Harrison
• Beverley Buildings recorded by YVBSG - Barry Harrison
• Day School - Markings and Dateable Features
• Witch Posts - Peter Walker
• Yew Tree Cottage, West Cowick - Tony Tolhurst
• Yew Tree Cottage - the owners' story - Terry Collins and Chris Watson
• Visiting Buildings around Thirsk

Yorkshire Buildings No 38, 2010 (£4 - LOW STOCK)

• Buildings of Carlton in Coverdale - Isobel Jenkins
• Vernacular Buildings of Market Towns in Yorkshire - report on day school

Yorkshire Buildings No 37, 2009 (£4 - IN STOCK)

• Burnsall and Thorpe - an introduction
• Farm Buildings in Thorpe - Alison Armstrong
• Evidence of Cruck Building at Hardy Grange, Thorpe - Alison Armstrong
• Houses and Cottages in Thorpe and Burnsall - Malcolm Birdsall
• Day School - Cruck Buildings in Yorkshire - David Cant
• Housing in a Pre-Industrial Market Town 1775-1840 - Barry Harrison
• A Visit to Luddenden and Midgley - Anne Kirker
• Book Review - Tony Robinson

Yorkshire Buildings No 36, 2008 (£4 - SOLD OUT)

• The Forest of Bowland - an introduction - Kevin Illingworth
• Aspects of Vernacular Buildings in Bowland - Kevin Illingworth
• Buildings in the Slaidburn Area - Kevin Illingworth
• Recording around Slaidburn - Kevin Illingworth
• Timber-Framed Vernacular Buildings in Yorkshire - David Cant
• Visits during 2007
• Leyland's Barn, Kettlewell - Stephen Haigh
• Book Review - David Cant

Yorkshire Buildings No 35, 2007 (£4 - IN STOCK)

• Swaledale Conference - Barry Harrison
• Glebe Farm, Octon - David Cook
• Visit to Norland Township, near Halifax - David Cant
• Excavation of Three Lost Pennine Buildings - Patrick Daniel
• Vernacular Buildings on Yorkshire's Borders - David Cant and Tony Robinson
• Richmond Recording Day - David Crook
• Book Review - Pam Trueman

Yorkshire Buildings No 34, 2006 (£4 - IN STOCK)

• Vernacular Buildings of Upperthong - Margaret Secor
• Beyond the Fringe: Cottages, Intakes and Smallholdings in the North York Moors 1600-1800 - Barry Harrison
• Buildings in the Medieval Landscape - Stephen Moorhouse

Yorkshire Buildings No 33, 2005 (£4 - LOW STOCK)

• Vernacular Buildings of Ryedale - David Cook
• A Walk Around Old Malton - David Cook
• The Geology and Building Stones of Southern Ryedale - Richard Myerscough
• East Riding Estate Villages: Four Case Studies - David Neave
• Villages of the Duncombe Park Estate and its Neighbours - Ian Pattison
• Colliers' Housing in the West Riding Coalfields - John Goodchild
• The End-Passage House in North-East Yorkshire and the Tees Plain - Barry Harrison
• Gabled Entry Barns in West Yorkshire: Power and Prestige - Doug Moir
• Book Review - Don McLellan

Yorkshire Buildings No 32, 2004 (£4 - IN STOCK)

• Vernacular Buildings of Scarborough - Malcolm Birdsall
• Ships' Timbers in Calderdale - David Cant
• Craftsmen and their Families - David Cant
• Heptonstall: A Hilltop Settlement - David Crook
• Stamp-Collecting in Starbotton - Arnold Pacey
• Selected Starbotton Buildings - Arnold Pacey
• The Parallelogram Plan: Accident or Design? - Dr Bruce Walker
• Book Review - David Cant

Yorkshire Buildings No 31, 2003 (£4 - IN STOCK)

• Buildings of Ripon and Copt Hewick - David Cook
• Vernacular Journeys around Lancashire and Yorkshire - Kevin Illingworth
• Buildings and the Archaeology of Landscape - Arnold Pacey
• From Starbotton to Kettlewell - David Crook
• Common Reed as a Building Material - Colin Howes
• Buildings for the Metal Trades in Hallamshire - Christine Ball
• Water Driven Corn Mills: Buildings and the Evolution of a Process - John Harrison
• A Lost Vernacular Building Tradition on the Yorkshire Wolds - Stephen Harrison

Yorkshire Buildings No 30, 2002 (£4 - SOLD OUT)

• Vernacular Buildings of the Flamborough Headland - Stephen Harrison
• Ogle's Cottage, Flamborough, and Postscript - Malcolm Birdsall
• Open to the Public - Kevin Illingworth
• Thoughts on Minor Timber-Framed Buildings in York - Alison Sinclair
• House Detectives: 1, 41 Main Street: 0 - Don McLellan
• Danby Wiske's Moated Rectory and Manor House - Mike Sanders
• Dendrochronology and the Analysis of Whiston Barn, near Rotherham - Ian Tyers and Cathy Groves
• Recording Structural Ironwork in Buildings before Iron-Framing - Pat Reynolds
• Crucks and other Discoveries in Brotton, Cleveland - David Cook, Jacky Quarmby and Tony Nicholson
• Book Review - David Cant

Yorkshire Buildings No 29, 2001 (£4 - SOLD OUT)

• Winter Bee Houses - Eva Crane
• Vernacular Buildings of Haworth - Malcolm Birdsall
• Vernacular Buildings and the Building Industry - David Cant
• Buildings of Bishopdale - Lorraine Moor
• Yorkshire's Traditional Farm Buildings (report on dayschool) - David Crook
• Longley Old Hall - David Cant
• Extramural yet Within the Walls - Barry Harrison
• On Surveying a Barn in a Snowstorm - Arnold Pacey
• Low Wiske Moor - David Cook

Yorkshire Buildings No 28, 2000 (£4 - LOW STOCK)

• Annual Conference 1999 in Holderness - Malcolm Birdsall
• Traditional Buildings of Yorkshire (report on day school) - Joy Hotchin
• Venturing South - Jacky Quarmby
• Strictly for the Birds - Tony Robinson
• A Farmer's Perspective - Kate Mason
• Cruck Buildings in the Central Pennines - Alison Armstrong and Arnold Pacey
• Dating Timber Framed Buildings (report on day school) - Lorraine Moor
• The Vernacular Buildings of Snape - Barry Harrison
• Corn-Drying Kilns in Wharfedale and Mid-Airedale - Kate Mason and Arnold Pacey
• The Cross - Liz Reynolds

Yorkshire Buildings No 27, 1999 (£3 - LOW STOCK)

• From Innocent to House Detective - David Cant
• Annual Conference 1998 in Hebden
• A Grain of Evidence! - Kate Mason
• Mud-and-Stud in Lincolnshire - David Cant
• My Life With Buildings - Barbara Hutton
• The Roof Over Your Head (account of dayschool)
• Fascinating Features
• When You Can't See the Wood for the Trees! - David Cook
• Recording Small Buildings in a Changing World (account of conference)
• Redundant Buildings in the Countryside (account of dayschool)
• Whatever Can It Be?
• Field Barns in Upper Swaledale - Liz Reynolds

Yorkshire Buildings No 26, 1998 (£3 - SOLD OUT)

• Annual Conference 1997 in Holderness - Malcolm Birdsall
• The Oak and the Ash? - Alison Armstrong
• 25th Anniversary Celebration - Cath Small
• Brackenbottom Beams
• Criss Cross Puzzle
• Buildings of Barden - Bronte Bedford Payne and Heather Beaumont
• Hiding in the Underdrawing - Arnold Pacey
• Whatever Can It Be?
• Letter to the Editor
• Doors and Windows (account of Cressing Temple dayschool)
• Field Barns in Upper Swaledale - Liz Reynolds
• Protective Markings in Yorkshire Building? - Alison Armstrong
• The Secrets of Snape (account of lecture)
• Tangled Words
• Vernacular Architecture on the Internet - Lorraine Moor

Yorkshire Buildings No 25, 1997 (£2 - LOW STOCK)

• Annual Conference 1996
  - Vernacular Buildings of the South Pennines - David Cook
  - Some Additional Thoughts on the Buildings - W John Smith
  - Recording Crosland Hall (or Blood, Sweat, Toil and Tears) - Don McLellan
• Vernacular Buildings of Holderness - David Cant
• Discovering Dentdale (account of walkabout)
• 25 Auspicious Years!
• The Way We Were (poem)
• CAD! - Mary Ellen Fanning
• Features, Fixtures and Fittings in Vernacular Buildings (account of dayschool)
• Pele Towers in Yorkshire? - Sue Degnan
• Whatever Can It Be?
• The Perils of Probate - Mary Ellen Fanning
• Book Review

Yorkshire Buildings No 24, 1996 (£2 - SOLD OUT)

• Regarding Ribblesdale:
  - Annual Conference 1995 at Horton-in-Ribblesdale - Tony Robinson
  - Strolling around Selside - Tony Robinson
  - Horton Barns - Arnold Pacey
• Bee Boles in Yorkshire - Penelope Walker
• Vernacular Architecture of the Holme and Colne Valleys - David Cant
• Whatever Can It Be?
• Contemplating Claremont - Claire Milsom
• The North Yorkshire Moors Buildings Preservation Trust - Peter Burman
• Three items on Swaledale:
  - Little North Riding Hood - Don McLellan
  - A Swaledale Wardrobe of 1727 - Gunhild Wilcock
  - A Swaledale Quiz - Joyce Williams
• Around the Rest of the Region:
  - Three Houses in Leeds ... And One near Huddersfield - David Cant
  - Upper Wharfedale Field Society - John Wright

Yorkshire Buildings No 23, 1995 (£2 - SOLD OUT)

• Annual Conference 1994 at Reeth - David Cant
• The Bard Strikes Again (poem)
• World Vernacular Architecture - Arnold Pacey
• A Saturday in Bradley ... - Gunhild Wilcock
• ...and a Sunday in Skipton and Carleton-in-Craven - Gunhild Wilcock
• Farmsteads on the Edge of Rishworth Moor - David Cant
• Some Thoughts upon Which to Ponder .. (quotations)
• Recording Vernacular Buildings in North Eastern England (account of dayschool)
• Arches and Apparitions in Askwith! - Alison Armstrong
• A Unique Collection of Animal Enclosures? - Malcolm Birdsall
• Around the Region