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By the 1890s it is estimated 100 million bricks per year were being produced in west Middlesex, supplying Victorian London's demand for building materials. [3] In December 1882, the Slough Arm of the canal opened, enabling the transportation of bricks made in Buckinghamshire. Bricks were also made in Kent, Essex and other areas where they could ...
The brick chimney was a prominent feature in Victorian homes, consisting of a fireplace, chimney breast and chimney stack that protruded above the roof line to exhaust smoke. [4] Victorian houses were generally built in terraces or as detached houses. Building materials were brick or local stone.
Victorian architecture is a series of architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century. Victorian refers to the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901), called the Victorian era, during which period the styles known as Victorian were used in construction. However, many elements of what is typically termed "Victorian" architecture did ...
The common building materials of Cardiff's Victorian and Edwardian buildings are Bath stone, blue Pennant stone and red brick – except in Cathays Park, where Portland stone predominates. Grey Lias stone features heavily in the construction of the city's medieval buildings (the keep of Cardiff Castle, Llandaff Cathedral and St John the Baptist ...
Similarly, the symmetrical floor plan and square silhouette that characterize colonial-style homes make them less expensive to build than, say, an elaborate and irregularly fronted Victorian.
The family demolished the original rambling Victorian house called "Homewood", to make way for the house on stilts their son Patrick Gwynne would design and build to replace it, at the age of 24. The family sold off property in Wales to finance the project which cost £10,000 at the time, exceeding the original estimate.
Monkton House, West Dean, West Sussex is an English country house designed in 1902 by Edwin Lutyens for William Dodge James. It was extensively remodelled for his son, Edward James , in the 1930s. Working with Christopher Nicholson and Hugh Casson , and assisted by Salvador Dalí , James constructed what has been called "the only complete ...
These houses may simply be called plank houses. Some building historians prefer the term plank-on-frame. Plank-frame houses are known from the 17th century with concentrations in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. The carpentry consists of a timber frame with vertical planks extending from sill ...