| Stuart 1603 - 1714 |
Buildings from the Stuart period
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 architecture of the early years of this period, up to 1625, is known
as Jacobean. Timber framing was still common but was
generally not exposed from the middle of the century onwards. Windows
became larger and more numerous to allow more light into buildings and
to show the wealth of the owner. |
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Burford, Oxfordshire, early/mid seventeenth
century
A Tudor building with Stuart frontage.
Features include; two gables with finials; many large
window with mullions; end chimney stack; pitched roof; drip moulds
over windows made from local stone.
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St John's House, Warwick, c1666
A high status building.
Features include; many, large windows divided by stone
mullions; projecting bays; gables, including Dutch style; finials
on top of gables; chimney stacks on gable ends; pitched roof with
an ornate roofline; symmetrical facade around central entrance. |
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House now 2 shops, Long Street, Tetbury,
Cotswolds, late seventeenth century
A lower status building, still in the same style but
with less decoration.
Features include; two gables, pitched roof; simple
casement windows. |
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Ford Old Hall, Grindon, Staffordshire,
seventeenth century
A variation on the style from further north also using
local materials.
Features include; gable with finial; end chimney stacks;
window mullions; pitched roof; only one room deep. |
| Architect Christopher Wren designed
many new churches for London after the Great Fire in 1666. Elsewhere
in the country there was little new church building. |
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Church of St Edmund, Lombard Street, London
A typical Wren church in a classical style on a restricted
urban site.
Features include; plain rectangular shape; built of
Portland stone; elegant tower with lantern; pediment above central
section; balustrade on top of front wall. |
The early eighteenth century
saw the emergence of a new architectural style, known as Queen
Anne, which retained features from the earlier Jacobean
period and introduced classical elements that were to feature in
the Georgian style. |
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Eagle House, Merton, Greater London, 1705
A high status building.
Features include; built from brown brick with red
brick dressings [patterns], steep hipped slate roof, a decorated
cornice [Modillion] under the eaves; a pediment over central section;
lantern tower; small pane sash windows; dormer windows in the roof;
shell-shaped overhanging door canopy; prominent, symmetrical chimney
stacks. |
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The Butts, Brentford, Greater London, early
eighteenth century.
An example of the style as adapted to a lower status
house, at this level houses were not always symmetrical.
Features include; dormer windows; hipped roof, red
tiles; modillion eaves cornice; small pane sash windows. |
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