How Old Is My House?
  • Home
  • How to date your house
  • House Styles
    • Tudor
    • Elizabethan, Jacobean & Stuart
    • Georgian
    • Regency
    • Victorian
    • Edwardian
    • Arts & Crafts 1880 - 1914
    • Art Deco 1918- 1935
    • 1930s
    • 1950s
  • Model Villages
    • Model Villages list
  • How Old is My Amercian House?
    • Colonial
    • Romantic
    • Victorian Style
    • Colonial Revival
    • Revival
    • Spanish Colonial Revival
    • Arts & Crafts
    • Modernist
    • Architectural Terms
Typical Georgian Town house

To look for

Georgian House Style
1714-1810

  • Flat or shallow roof partially hidden behind a parapet
  • Yellow brickwork often replaced red
  • Windows are smaller towards top of house
  • Front doors have 6 panels plus a fanlight and are often framed by columns and have an overhead porch
  • Front doors are often framed by columns
  • Openings are plain and have deep double-hung sash windows
  • Stucco-faced external ground floor
  • Fireplaces are always the main focal point of the room
  • Rooms are generous with high ceilings
  • Doors and windows have entablatures, pediments, consoles and either pilasters or columns
  • Floorboards are wide, scrubbed and oiled
  • Niches shaped like scallop shells for ornaments
  • Noticeable decrease in use of oak with  more pine and fir used.
  • Staircase to the first floor only with wrought and cast iron balustrades in one sweeping curve
  • Subsequent floors are served by a secondary staircase
On Georgian homes windows are often smaller towards the top of the house
Windows are often smaller towards the top of the house
visit a georgian house for yourself
Georgian - Dennis Severs house
The ten rooms of this original Huguenot house have been decorated to recreate snapshots of life in Spitalfields between 1724 and 1914.
An escorted tour  takes you through the cellar, kitchen, dining room, smoking room and upstairs to the bedrooms. With hearth and candles burning, smells lingering and objects scattered apparently haphazardly, it feels as though the inhabitants had deserted the rooms only moments before. The Dennis Severs House tour is unsuitable for children as tours are conducted in silence
18 Folgate St, Spitalfields,London, E1 6BX
https://www.dennissevershouse.co.uk/
Georgian -  oscar wildes house 
21 Westland Row, Trinity College, Dublin is where  Oscar Wilde was born .The  internal structure is preserved and refurbished in 1850s period style to commemorate the achievements of Oscar Wilde who was one of the university's most famous students. It is also envisaged that the house should celebrate the lives of Oscar's parents who played a key role in the intellectual life of Ireland in the last century.
1920’s 21 Westland Row , Dublin
Georgian - Halliwell's House Museum
The Museum is situated in the very atmospheric Halliwell's Close. Salkirk. The narrow, cobbled lane with outhouses, which was formerly gas-lit and was typical of many such closes in Selkirk, has a compelling history dating back over 400 years.
The museum building itself dates from the end of the 18th century and is part of what is probably the oldest surviving row of dwellings in the historic town of Selkirk.
Halliwells House Museum , Market Place, Selkirk
Georgian - number twenty nine
​Number Twenty Nine is Dublin's Georgian House Museum.  Visitors take a tour from the basement to the attic, through rooms which have been furnished with original artefacts as they would have been in the years 1790 to 1820.Visiting the exhibition gives young and old alike a chance to experience what life was like for the fortunate who lived in such elegant townhouses, and the less fortunate who worked in them.
Number 29 is located at the junction of Fitzwilliam Street lower and Mount Street Upper.
Kelmscott House Home of William Morris
The summer home of William Morris, Kelmscott Manor is a Grade I listed farmhouse, built around 1600 adjacent to the River Thames.
William Morris chose it as his summer home, signing a joint lease with the Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti in the summer of 1871. Morris loved the house as a work of true craftsmanship, totally unspoilt and unaltered, and in harmony with the village and the surrounding countryside. He considered it so natural in its setting as to be almost organic, it looked to him as if it had "grown up out of the soil". Its beautiful gardens, with barns, dovecote, a meadow and stream, provided a constant source of inspiration.
Website: http://www.williammorrissociety.org
Handel & Hendrix in London
Separated by some 200 years this is the home of 2 artists who changed the face of music forever. Step inside 25 Brook Street to explore the floors once occupied by Baroque composer George Frideric Handel, and then head next door to get an inside look at the London life of Jimi Hendrix.
Journey inside 25 Brook Street, the home where Handel lived and worked from 1723 until his death in 1759. Enjoy time to peruse the 2 floors and 4 rooms that have been masterfully restored to appear as they were in the 18th century. 
Website: https://handelhendrix.org
GEORGIAN - KETTLES YARD
Kettle’s Yard is the University of Cambridge’s modern and contemporary art gallery. Kettle’s Yard is a beautiful house with a remarkable collection of modern art and a gallery that hosts modern and contemporary art exhibitions.
​http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/about/
GEORGIAN - BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S HOUSE
In the heart of London, is Benjamin Franklin House, Built circa 1730 http://www.benjaminfranklinhouse.org/site/sections/default.htm
GEORGIAN - Red House museum and Gardens Heritage Museum 
Red House Museum and Gardens Heritage Museum is a charming Georgian building in Christchurch, Dorset
The Museum shows the archaeology, social and domestic history of Christchurch. 
Red House Museum 
One of the most famous Georgian front doors
One of the most famous Georgian front doors
On Georgian houses flat or shallow roof partially hidden behind a parapet
Flat or shallow roof partially hidden behind a parapet
Stucco-faced external ground floor of Georgian town house
Stucco-faced external ground floor
Example of how the date of a house built early in a period can easily be mistaken.This house which looks Tudor or Elizabethan is built in 1680 at the start of the Georgian period
Example of how the date of a house built early in a period can easily be mistaken.This house which looks Tudor or Elizabethan is built in 1680 at the start of the Georgian period
On Georgian front doors the openings are plain and have deep double-hung sash windows
Openings are plain and have deep double-hung sash windows
#howoldismyhouse
QUICK LINKS  - Home   How to date your house   House Styles   Tudor     Jacobean/Elizabethan     Regency   Victorian   Edwardian  1930s    ​1950s   Art Deco    Arts & Crafts    Model villages   Bricks  HOME
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • Home
  • How to date your house
  • House Styles
    • Tudor
    • Elizabethan, Jacobean & Stuart
    • Georgian
    • Regency
    • Victorian
    • Edwardian
    • Arts & Crafts 1880 - 1914
    • Art Deco 1918- 1935
    • 1930s
    • 1950s
  • Model Villages
    • Model Villages list
  • How Old is My Amercian House?
    • Colonial
    • Romantic
    • Victorian Style
    • Colonial Revival
    • Revival
    • Spanish Colonial Revival
    • Arts & Crafts
    • Modernist
    • Architectural Terms