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Wales in Fifty Buildings

A miscellany of architectural gems

Author(s) Bethan Scorey

Hardback - £14.99

Language: English

Genre(s): Calon, Welsh Interest, History

October 2026 · 144 pages ·178x111mm

· Hardback - 9781915279866
· eBook - epub - 9781915279880
· eBook - pdf - 9781915279897

About the Book
About the Author(s)

Join Bethan Scorey on an illustrated exploration of fifty historic buildings in Wales, each with its own fascinating story to tell.

Wales in Fifty Buildings is a celebration of buildings of all ages and from all corners of Wales, with each providing an insight into a different aspect of its history. Follies, observatories, mausoleums and shell grottoes await, with Bethan’s enchanting colour illustrations bringing them all to life.

From concrete cottages to a house with seven ‘eyes’, from a mysterious dovecote in a cliff to a Swiss chalet in Swansea, expect a surprise with every turn of the page.

Browse the buildings in chronological order, or follow one of the suggested sequences – how about a coastal road trip? Or an afternoon of whimsical garden buildings? Wales in Fifty Buildings is the perfect book for adventurers and armchair travellers alike.

Author(s): Bethan Scorey

Dr Bethan Scorey is an architectural historian and illustrator from Cardiff. She first discovered her passion for historic buildings while working as a guide at St Fagans National Museum of History, an open-air museum filled with buildings – from an Iron Age roundhouse to a 1940s prefab. The subject of her PhD was St Fagans Castle, the Elizabethan country house at the heart of the museum. Today, you can find Bethan co-presenting the S4C television programme Cartrefi Cymru, which explores the history and evolution of houses in Wales. She loves nothing more than setting out on adventure to find an historic building.