Chimneys often clustered in groups .

Elizabethan & Jacobean &
Stuart
​1560-1713

What to look for

• Flat-fronted, bare brick built houses
• Sash windows can be found
• Often built in a Classical Palladian style.
• Terraces, with gothic touches
• ​Elizabethan houses were largely influenced  by a blend  of Italian Renaissance with a Dutch influence.Some symmetrical lay-out
• Quite spacious parlours
• Small rooms in top of house for servants
• Often some Continental influence in wealthy homes
• Start of the trend for terraced homes
• The most common manor plan was an E shape, with the vertical line of the E being the main hall and the shorter horizontal end lines, the kitchens and living rooms. The shorter central line was the entry porch.
• Introduction of  a long gallery with  windows on three sides and fireplaces along the fourth, often running the entire length of the floor.
• Stone was preferred rather than brick
• Chimney stacks resemble classical columns in the Italian Renaissance style
• Chimneys often clustered in groups of two or three.
• Windows were generally large, did not contain arching and contained a number of small rectangular panes separated by thin mullions.
• Half timbering in smaller houses where stone was scarce or expensive.
• Wood panelling
• Elaborate fireplaces
• Richly plastered ceilings
• Sometimes a simple central hall, with flooring halfway to the roof, creating an upper story.
• ​Motifs of decorative work resembling interlacing straps,  carved in low relief ,or moulded in plaster, used internally and externally​

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Jane Austens house

Jane Austen’s house at Chawton is where she spent the last eight years of her life. It is of international importance as the place where she did the majority of her mature writing, but at the same time retains the charm of a village home. A 17th century house, it tells the story of Jane Austen and her family.
Jane Austens House Chawlton,  Alton, Hampshire GU34 1SD

Leonard and Virginia Woolf's 17th-century country retreat

Leonard and Virginia Woolf's 17th-century country retreat
Nestled in the heart of rural Sussex, Monk’s House is a tranquil 17th-century weatherboarded cottage inhabited by Leonard and the novelist Virginia Woolf from 1919 until Leonards death in 1969.
The Woolfs bought Monk's House for the 'shape and fertlity and wildness of the garden'. Today, the lovely cottage garden contains a mix of flowers, vegetables, orchards, lawns and ponds.  
Rodmell, Lewes, BN7 3HF

 Dove Cottage

 Dove Cottage, Grassmere is a little cottage, in the heart of the remote Lake District where William Wordsworth wrote some of the greatest poetry in the English language and Dorothy kept her famous 'Grasmere Journal', now on display in the Museum. Step into Dove Cottage  to get a sense of that time: stone floors, dark panelled rooms, glowing coal fires and the family’s own belongings. Little has changed in the house since the Wordsworths lived here.Dove Cottage, Grasmere, Cumbria, LA22 9S

​Geffrye Museum 

​1714   The Geffrye museum focuses on the urban living rooms and gardens of the English middle classes.  The collections show how homes have been used and furnished over the past 400 years, reflecting changes in society and behaviour as well as style, fashion and taste. The restored historic almshouse has been fully restored to its original condition, offering a rare glimpse into the lives of London's poor and elderly in former times.
https://www.geffrye-museum.org.uk/explore-the-geffrye/\
136 Kingsland Road, Shoreditch, London E2 8EA 

Stone was often preferred rather than brick

Three bay bricknogged timber-frame to the front with a thatched roof

Windows were generally large, did not contain arching and contained a number of small rectangular panes separated by thin mullions.

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