British Architectural Styles
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Trevor Yorke
Trevor Yorke is a professional author and artist who has studied and written about various aspects of England's architectural and industrial heritage. He has produced many illustrated books that introduce the reader to these topics and writes articles and reviews for various magazines. He lives in the UK.
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British Architectural Styles - Trevor Yorke
Tudor House Style
1485 - 1560
Hampton Court, Surrey: This most notable of Tudor houses was built by Cardinal Wolsey but fell into Henry VIII’s hands, who set about expanding it into a royal palace. This gatehouse incorporates all the fashionable features of the day, including red brick with stone dressing, diaper patterns, oriel windows and prominent chimneys, yet still retains medieval details like the crenellations along the top and the courtyard layout.
The Tudor period was one of great change, improving fortunes and notorious monarchs! The feudal system, cornerstone of medieval society, had broken down as a population, halved by the Black Death and subsequent periodic outbreaks of plague, sought greater freedom and opportunities, with families originally from a poor background acquiring land and wealth over generations to become yeomen farmers, merchants, or even gentry. The creation of the Church of England and the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII created huge social upheaval and resulted in a large amount of land being granted to the King’s favourites, although doubts over the permanence of his actions meant few did much with their new properties in this period. It is the houses, large and small, of these newly successful families, alongside those of the existing landed classes, which survive today.
Structure
Tudor towns and cities were generally small, with houses set upon thin plots of land with a narrow frontage overlooking the street. Villages were dominated by the manor house and two-storey farmhouses while around them the majority of the rural population was housed in simple buildings of timber, mud or rubble. These were often shared with the livestock and may have lasted a few hundred years or just a generation, but only survive today as raised platforms in deserted villages. The houses of the successful and wealthy were generally one room deep because the weight of the roof structure limited greater width, and there was little attention to outward display and style. Most large houses were asymmetrical arrangements of buildings looking inwards upon a courtyard. The urban houses of merchants and tradesmen often had a shop, warehouse or workshop on the lower storey with accommodation jettied above.
Wealden House: A popular style of house in the south and east of the country was the Wealden House. Built for the lesser gentry and farmers, it had a recessed open hall in the centre with two-storey cross wings at either end, all under a single roof.
Exterior Style
The gentry had been little concerned with the arts, their wealth was spent embellishing the House of God to secure passage through purgatory rather than in decorating their own residences. It was later in this period before they became aware of the artistic flowering of the Renaissance, only for contact with this new flow of European culture to be severed by the Reformation. The finest timber-framed houses featured close studding (tightly fitted vertical members) or had decorative timber patterns set in the panels to demonstrate the owner’s wealth. Many, especially in towns, had jetties overhanging the lower floor, a status symbol as much as a way of creating extra space. Bricks were typically red, often with stone dressing for the windows and quoins (corner stones) and diaper patterns (diagonal crosses) formed out of over-burnt dark grey bricks.
Hall with cross wings: Larger houses for the wealthy were centred upon the hall, with wings containing the private chambers at one end and those with the service rooms and kitchens at the other. These could either form a single unit as in this case or be arranged around a courtyard.
Box frame: A box-framed house stripped of its wattle and daub infill to reveal its basic structure. The wealthier owners in this period fitted decorative or close studded timbers in the wall panels.
Urban house with jetty: Urban houses