Vernacular Architecture

Buildings belonging to the middle and lower end of the social scale which fall into three main categories - domestic, agricultural and industrial - and which are characteristic of a period, place, or group. Building styles that remain common over a period of time to a particular place.

The study of the vernacular architecture of the post-medieval period has developed mainly in Britain. Vernacular architecture comprises buildings belonging to the middle and lower end of the social scale which fall into three main categories, domestic, agricultural and industrial. The study of post-medieval standing buildings has proved an aid to the study of the excavated medieval remnants of buildings and has demonstrated the antecedents of many well-known post-medieval building types.