The English Home from Charles I to George IV is J. Alfred Gotch’s survey of English domestic architecture, decoration, and garden design across roughly two centuries. Gotch traces the development of the house from the Stuart era through the age of Wren, the Palladians, and the Georgian masters, examining how taste, planning, and ornament evolved.
An architect and historian of English building, Gotch attends to interiors and gardens as well as exteriors, treating the home as a unified work of art. The book draws on a wealth of examples to chart the shift from Jacobean richness to Georgian elegance. It remains a well-informed and readable account of one of the most fertile periods in the history of the English house.