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6 unusual facts about Tudor architecture


Super 8 Motels

The stucco exterior with an English Tudor style was inspired by Rivett's father-in-law, who was a stuccoer; the English Tudor style and placing or Super 8's near Holiday Inns was an established procedure for setting up new Super 8's for years to come.

Thornby, Northamptonshire

Thornby Hall is located off Naseby road and is 17th century, with 19th and 20th century additions, in the Tudor style.

Tincleton

The parish manor house, Clyffe House, was rebuilt in the Tudor style in 1842 by Benjamin Ferrey.

Tudor architecture

For the style popular in apartment buildings and housing cooperatives in New York City in the 1920s, see Tudor City.

Hammerbeam roofs still in use from medieval period under Henry VII and remained so until 1603 for great halls, but were more decorative: often had corbels the were carved into beasts or had geometric patterns

Welford-on-Avon

There are three pubs and many Tudor half-timbered and thatched cottages, mostly close to the village church, which is the older part of Welford.


High Park North

The oldest residential houses in High Park North were built in the late 1800s and early 1900s and are mostly Victorian, Edwardian and Tudor-style.

Keele Hall

The manor of Keele was held by the Sneyd (pronounced Snade) family and in about 1580 Ralph Sneyd built a large gabled Tudor style house there.

Layer Marney Tower

Layer Marney Tower is a Tudor palace, composed of buildings, gardens and parkland, dating from 1520 situated in Layer Marney, Colchester, Essex, England.

R. Harold Zook

He is known for the "Cotswold style cottages" he designed which use details from Tudor architecture including timber framing, exposed beams, diamond-shaped window panes, and intricate brick or stonework.

Water Eaton, Oxfordshire

St. Frideswide's Farmhouse is a 16th-century Tudor stone house, and towards the end of that century was a home of the Lenthall family.


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