'As an insight into what must have been an explosive building period this is of considerable interest...

full of detail particularly for those enmeshed in nineteenth century conservation work.'
EASA Newsletter

'Helen Long's book is a long-overdue scholarly examination of the 'ordinary' Victorian house which may help owners,

conservation officers and other who want to halt or reverse the process of alteration...

For those looking for accurate information rather than fanciful recreations this book provides excellent guidance...

It deserves to be on many shelves and woe betide any 'expert' who does not have it!'
Dr Richard Holder, Senior Architectural Adviser, The Victorian Society, published in Journal of Architectural Conservation July 2002