From the mid-twentieth century onwards, there has been a growing interest in the domestic houses, farm buildings and industrial structures of ordinary working class people in the past. Initially, this was brought about due to the savage destruction of so many timber-framed buildings during the 1950s and 1960s. However, the impetus to record or save buildings at risk of demolition gradually gave way to the study of vernacular architecture.
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