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FRONT FACING (Tudor 1485-1603)
Half-timbered with white-painted wattle and daub painted walls, these houses had steeply-pitched roofs and small-paned casement windows, often with a jetty overhanging the street.They are the very essence of Olde England, pretty black and white dwellings with great character and centuries of history steeped in their walls. Tudor homes were built at a time when the British were feeling less fearful for their safety, so houses were more outward-facing than in the Middle Ages. -
BARE BRICK (Stuart/Jacobean 1604-1713)
Flat-fronted, bare brick built houses with sash windows, often built in a classical Palladian style terraces, and with gothic touches.
At the beginning of this period, life for the Middling Sort – forerunners of the middle classes – centred on The Hall. But from the 1660s, the parlour and the dining room became the main living areas for the family, signalling a change in the way households lived with a greater separation between the family, their servants, apprentices. -
WELL BALANCED (Georgian 1714-1820)
The design is all about proportion and balance, with sash windows, stucco cornices and often a rectangular window or fanlight over the six-panelled front door. Harmony, symmetry, airiness, space and light … these were the watchwords for Georgian houses. Influences came from wealthy families taking the Grand Tour of Europe, and architects like Inigo Jones drawing inspiration from the classical Palladian style.
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AFFORDABLE HOMES (Victorian 1837-1901)
Bay windows, coloured brickwork, decorated bargeboards and roof tops and a garden back and front.The industrial revolution brought with it mass manufacturing and meant that many more people could afford to buy their own homes. This was the time of the emerging middle classes and they moved into substantial detached, semi or terraced homes, still large enough to accommodate a couple of servants, with large reception rooms with high ceilings, elaborate moulded plaster cornices and fireplaces.
