PPS 21 Sustainable Development in the Countryside·Page 50·Annex 2
Definition of Rural Vernacular Buildings
Rural vernacular or traditional architecture is defined as small plain buildings constructed in the countryside (particularly before 1925) where local folk tradition dominates siting, materials, form and design. Such buildings are typical of their locality and lack individualistic or educated design features.
Rural vernacular or traditional architecture is the construction of small plain buildings in the countryside (particularly before 1925) where the dominant influence in siting, materials, form and design is the local 'folk tradition'. Such vernacular buildings will have been typical, i.e., of a common type in any given locality and will lack the individualistic and 'educated' design features that characterised international fashions in formal architecture during the same period.
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