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28 unusual facts about Georgian Architecture


Albert Cassell

His most important design at Howard, was the Founders Library, a building which evoked both the Georgian architecture revival style and Independence Hall in Philadelphia.

Bainton, East Riding of Yorkshire

The church's listed rectory, south of the church, is of late Georgian period.

Brampton Bryan

Other buildings within the village include a number of fine Georgian houses and some earlier timber-framed buildings situated around the small triangular green.

Chacombe

The house has a large Elizabethan porch and a late-17th-century staircase, and was remodelled in the Georgian era.

Charles Dickens Museum

It occupies a typical Georgian terraced house which was Charles Dickens' home from 25 March 1837 (a year after his marriage) to December 1839.

Clan Maclaine of Lochbuie

Lochbuie House is a Georgian style house that sits just behind Moy Castle, overlooking Lochbuie.

Colwall

Near to the station is the mock Georgian, country house style Colwall Park Hotel, purpose built in 1905 to serve the now defunct Colwall Horse Racecourse.

Connecticut Western Reserve

The settlers in northern Ohio repeated the style of structures and development of towns from what they were familiar with in New England: many buildings in the new settlements were designed in the Georgian, Federal and Greek Revival styles.

Coulston

Baynton House is an exquisite Georgian manor house (with much older origins) set in extensive gardens, and is next to the Coulston Deer Park, which still has a herd of deer and is owned together with Baynton House.

Cromarty

Cromarty is architecturally important for its Georgian merchant houses that stand within a townscape of Georgian and Victorian fisherman's cottages in the local vernacular style.

Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation

The Foundation is based at Daiwa Foundation Japan House, a Georgian town house designed by Decimus Burton overlooking Regent's Park in central London.

Earl of Belvedere

He hired the well known architect Michael Stapleton to build it and it is one of the best surviving examples of Georgian architecture in Ireland.

Glentworth, Lincolnshire

The middle section of the present church is the product of Georgian and Victorian rebuilding.

Henryk Hryniewski

He was also known as a scholar and an educator of traditional Georgian architecture.

Hughenden Valley

Benjamin Disraeli (later Earl of Beaconsfield) lived at Hughenden Manor, a Georgian mansion, altered by the Disraelis when they purchased it in 1848.

James Joyce Centre

The Centre is situated in a restored 18th-century Georgian townhouse at 35 North Great George's Street Dublin, dating from a time when north inner city Dublin was at the height of its grandeur.

Langley Burrell

The Georgian parsonage was for many years the home of the Rev. Robert Kilvert, father of the diarist Francis Kilvert, who from 1863 to 1864 and 1872 to 1876 was curate to his father here.

Manor Park Country Park

Inside the Georgian wine cellar (of the house), 'the Twitch Inn' was established.

Melmerby, Cumbria

The Hall, built from the local red sandstone, was extended in the 17th century and again in the 18th century in a Georgian style.

Milton, Easter Ross

The original village, a conservation area, features classic Scottish Vernacular architectural features, and a short distance away the Tarbat Estate includes Major-General Lord MacLeod's 1787 Georgian Tarbat House, now in a state of ruin but with many original features within the grounds, including the burial sites of favourite horses and dogs and an impressive, although now uncared for Victorian arboretum.

Monk Hesleden

The Church of St. Marys, at Monk Hesleden can be dated as far back as the 13th century, though by the time it was photographed in the 19th century, it had been greatly altered, giving the impression, externally at least, of a much later structure, almost Georgian in style.

Oldwick, New Jersey

It has a mixture of Victorian, Federal, New England and Georgian style homes, and is protected by historic legislation.

Rushton, Northamptonshire

Other notable buildings in the village include a Manor House east of the church, Manor Farm House (17th-century) and the Georgian Old Rectory .

St. Mary's Church, Hanwell

Despite a gallery being built in 1823 the old Georgian building became too small for the growing population.

Testerton

With two storeys in seven bays, the building is constructed from red brick and has a south facade in the Georgian architecture style.

West Haddon

Also of note are some almshouses at the west end of the village and West Haddon Hall, late Georgian.

Whittington, Staffordshire

However, the 13th century building was destroyed by fire in 1760, and was rebuilt in Georgian style using sandstone quarried from Hopwas Hayes wood.

Woodford, Wiltshire

Heale House is an example of Georgian architecture that dates to around 1730; it is surrounded by notable gardens.


Barford Court, Hove

In particular, the interior—whose elaborate flourishes and modern features contrast with the "austere" Neo-Georgian exterior—has much in common with the Art Deco style in which he usually worked.

Bastard brothers

Pevsner describes the Bastards works at Blandford as providing "One of the most satisfying Georgian ensembles anywhere in England".

Cavendish Crescent, Bath

Cavendish Crescent in Bath, Somerset, is a Georgian crescent built in the early 19th century to a design by the architect John Pinch the elder.

Cleveland Bridge

Named after the 3rd Duke of Cleveland, it spans the River Avon at Bathwick, and enabled further development of Georgian Bath to take place on the south side of the river.

Eynsham Hall

Built in 1780 as a Georgian house, it was demolished in 1904 and rebuilt as a Jacobean style mansion in 1906-8 by Ernest George for the Masons family who took up residence in 1866.

John Pinch the elder

He was surveyor to the Pulteney and Darlington estate and responsible for many of the later Georgian buildings in Bath, especially in Bathwick.

Lawyers Hill Historic District

The district encompasses a broad array of architectural styles ranging from 1738 Georgian Colonial to 1941 Georgian Revival.

Les Jolies Eaux

The main house, completed in 1972, was designed by the princess's uncle-in-law Oliver Messel in the neo-Georgian-style.

Middleton Stoney

Middleton Park is a neo-Georgian country house built in 1938 by Edwin Lutyens and his son Robert for the 9th Earl of Jersey.

Museum of London

Star exhibits include a reconstruction of Georgian pleasure gardens, the foreboding wooden interior of the Wellclose debtors prison cell, an art deco lift from Selfridges department store and the puppet stars of BBC children's TV Andy Pandy and Bill and Ben.

Olantigh

In December 1903, Olantigh was occupied by Wanley Elias Sawbridge-Erle-Drax, vicar of Almer, Dorset, when fire gutted the Georgian mansion.

Portman Estate

The present grid layout of streets was established when the Estate was developed in the 18th Century and it is characterised by Georgian architecture, similar to Edinburgh's New Town.

Robin Dods

He built for himself a house at Edgecliff, described by a contemporary as "charming in its quiet Georgian character, well planned, and forming an attractive setting for the antique furniture he had collected for many years."

Salthrop House

The current house was built to the style of James Wyatt in 1795, with an entrance front to the west comprising three bays with a central bow, whilst the north and east fronts are of four and five bays, constructed in a Georgian style.

Schenectady City Hall

Their building went further in evoking the historical antecedents of Colonial buildings than most Colonial Revival buildings of the era, with enough neoclassical elements including a cupola styled after those on the buildings of Christopher Wren, that the building's style has been described as "neo-Georgian or neo-Federal".

Stoke, Plymouth

The area has been prosperous for several hundred years, and there are some distinguished private houses dating to Georgian and Victorian times (several of which feature in Nikolaus Pevsner's South Devon: Penguin Books, 1952, content (revised and enlarged) issued New Haven: Yale U. P. 1989.

Strawbery Banke

It features more than 40 restored buildings built between the 17th and 19th centuries in the Colonial, Georgian, and Federal style architectures.

Taunton Castle

By 1780, many parts of the castle, had fallen into a bad condition and were repaired in a Georgian style by Sir Benjamin Hammet, a banker of Lombard Street, London, and the Member of Parliament for Taunton.

Trexler Historic District

Notable buildings include the 3-story, log Georgian style Ritter House (1790); Amos Trexler House (1886); 1 1/2-story log house (c. 1800); Trexler General Store (1890); cider mill (c. 1850); 3-story, frame storage building (1917); and Nathan Trexler House (1875).

Winfield House

Later the Georgian villa was known as St Dunstan's, because of the distinctive clock that hung in front of it, purchased by art collector Francis Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford when material from St Dunstan-in-the-West was auctioned off in 1829-30 prior to the church's demolition.

Wordsworth House

Wordsworth House is a Georgian townhouse situated in Cockermouth, Cumbria, England, and in the ownership of the National Trust.