| GEORGIAN 1714 - 1837 |
Georgian buildings can be identified
from typical features illustrated in these listed buildings
Use this glossary
from the 'Looking at Buildings' website to check the meanings of unfamiliar
words.
The Georgian period saw the begriming of a coherent attitude
to town planning and emergence of a style based on classical forms.
Georgian architecture is distinguished by the symmetry of individual
buildings and of complete terraces, crescents and squares and streets.
Frontages were often planned as a continuous whole even if several builders
were involved in the development. In the countryside it was the golden
age of the classical country house set in a landscaped park. |
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Blue Anchor public house, Staines, early/mid eighteenth
century
A detached townhouse with the ground floor converted later.
Features include, brick built; symmetrically placed sash windows;
hipped tile roof with dormers; decorative ironwork on first floor;
prominent cornice.
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Ripon Town Hall, 1799
Many places have imposing public buildings built in the Georgian
period reflecting the growing influence of fashionable urban life.
Features include, stucco, classical facade with columns, frieze
and pediment, sash windows, ironwork on first floor, sill band over
ground floor windows. |
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Falkner Street, Liverpool, 1820s
A pair of late Georgian townhouses in a terrace or line of repetitive
houses.
Features include; tall narrow frontages; brick built; ground floor
raised with basement below; sash windows; regular pattern of doors
and windows; classical style columns in doorways; roof hidden from
view; sill band above ground floor windows and doors; decorative
ironwork on first floor; iron railings. |
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Ulster Terrace, Regents Park, London, 1824
Georgian buildings were built in impressive squares, crescents
or terraces in fashionable places like London and Bath. The aim
was often to give the impression of a single large classical building.
Features include, built of brick covered with stucco [plaster];
sash windows in regular pattern; symmetrical design of whole block;
bow windows; classical style colonnades on ground floor; hidden
roof. |
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A pair of early nineteenth century cottages in Kings
Lynn
Vernacular [lower status] buildings built in brick incorporating
features from 'polite' [high status] buildings.
Features include, symmetrically placed sash windows, fanlights
over doorways. |
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Please note Teachers
are advised that not all listed buildings are open to the public and
that if you or your students wish to focus on a private building issues
of privacy and access must be considered.
Visit the Georgian
Group website for further information
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