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Initially, houses were built around a communal courtyard, but later they were built onto streets. [6] Houses of this type had become common in inner city areas of Victorian England, especially in Birmingham , Bradford , [ 7 ] Leeds , Liverpool , Manchester , Salford and in Nottingham , where about 7,500 of their 11,000 houses (roughly 68 per ...
The concrete was made of nothing more than rubble and mortar. It was cheap and very easy to produce and required relatively unskilled labour to use, enabling the Romans to build on an unprecedented scale. They not only used it for walls but also to form arches, barrel vaults and domes, which they built over huge spans. The Romans developed ...
Rossie House, Angus, Scotland, by Alexander Edward Slushko Palace , Vilnius, Lithuania (begun c.1690), by Giovanni Pietro Perti Tessin Palace , Stockholm (begun 1694), by Nicodemus Tessin the Younger
A row of typical British terraced houses in Manchester. Terraced houses have been popular in the United Kingdom, particularly England and Wales, since the 17th century. They were originally built as desirable properties, such as the townhouses for the nobility around Regent's Park in central London, and the Georgian architecture that defines the World Heritage Site of Bath.
However, whether the owner of a "power house" or a small manor, the inhabitants of the English country house have become collectively referred to as the ruling class, because this is exactly what they did in varying degrees, whether by having high political influence and power in national government, or in the day-to-day running of their own ...
In 1747 the 2s flat rate was detached from the window tax as a tax in its own right and the way the window tax was calculated was altered. 6d was charged for each window in a house with 10–14, 9d for each window in a house with 15–19, 1s for every window in a house with 20 or more. In 1758 the flat rate charge was increased to 3s.
The architecture of Britain this period reflects these changes; church building declined dramatically, supplanted by the construction of mansions and manor houses. Clergyman William Harrison noted in his Description of England (1577), "Each one desireth to set his house aloft on the hill, to be seen afar off, and cast forth his beams of stately ...
1700 in architecture; 1701 in architecture; 1702 in architecture; 1703 in architecture; 1704 in architecture; ... General Glover House This page was last ...