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The Landmark Trust Handbook

The Landmark Trust is a building preservation charity, founded in 1965 by Sir John and Lady Smith. It was established to rescue historic and architecturally interesting buildings and their surroundings from neglect and, when restored, to give them new life by letting them for holidays. The Landmark Trust Handbook illustrates every property in their care with pictures, floor plans and interesting documentary on their history.

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Publisher
The Landmark Trust

Author
Sophie Horton & Katherine Oakes

ISBN
0953312437

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As the 16th Century home of the grammarian and humanist Henry Salisbury, it can be said that Dolbelydr (in Denbighshire) is the birthplace of the modern Welsh language. It was here in 1593 that Salisbury wrote the Grammatica Brittanica, the first Welsh grammar ever produced.

The house is also important as being a very good, and largely uncompromised, example of a storeyed stone and chimney house – a class of polite vernacular building which dominated the domestic architecture of the north Walian lesser gentry in the Tudor period.

One of the conserved trusses for Dolbelydr being craned into position

By 1990 the building had become totally derelict, so the Landmark Trust decided to repair the building and let it for holiday use. Carpenter Oak & Woodlands Conservation and Restoration Division were commissioned to undertake the conservation and restoration of the roof and floor structures. Our work also included work to interior panelling and doorways.

For more information visit the web site of Landmark Trust

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