The following list includes guides to tracing the history of your house, a selection of useful books on architectural history, and major architectural and topographical surveys.

General guides

Nick Barratt, Tracing the History of Your House (Public Record Office, 2001)

NW Alcock, Documenting the History of Houses (London, British Records Association, 2003)

Bill Breckon and Jeffrey Parker, Tracing the History of Houses (Countryside Books, 1991)

A A Dibben, Title Deeds (Historical Association, 1971)

David Iredale, Sources for the History of Houses (Shire Publications, 1977)

Short Guides to Records (Historical Association, 2 vols 1994, 1997)

Local guides

Guide to Research No. 4: History of Houses (Gwent County Record Office, nd)

A Guide to Sources for Tracing the History of a House or Property in Norfolk (Norfolk Record Office, nd)

Tracing the History of Your House (Sheffield Archives: Local History Guides No. 1, revised 1991)

Surveys

The Pevsner Architectural Guides (Buildings of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales) (Penguin Books and Yale University Press, 1951-present)

The Victoria History of the Counties of England (Institute of Historical Research, 1900-present)

The Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England: county inventories and thematic surveys (1912-99)

Survey of London: parish volumes and monograph series (1900-present)

Architectural history sources

M W Barley, The English Farmhouse and Cottage (1961)

M W Barley, The Buildings of the Countryside 1500-1750 (Cambridge University Press, 1990)

R W Brunskill, Illustrated Handbook of Vernacular Architecture (Faber & Faber, 1971)

H M Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840 (3rd edition, Yale University Press,1995) (new edition in preparation)

Nicholas Cooper, Houses of the Gentry 1480-1680 (Yale University Press, 1999)

Stefan Muthesius, The English Terraced House (1982)

John Summerson, Architecture in Britain 1530-1830 (9th edition, 1993)