Georgian
Over 300 years since the Hanoverians, the homes of the Georgian period remain to this day one of the most popular of styles. For myself it remains a personal favourite and as a child I long dreamed of living in a refined and elegant Georgian home.
It’s a style that can be seen almost everywhere, offering a window to the past. The period saw a meeting of worlds – medieval and modern. Much of the population still worked on the land, but the industrial and agricultural revolutions brought about new benefits and wealth. This new wealth was not just the preserve of the elite, but offered the opportunity for the middle classes to prosper into the mainstay of society.
When we talk of Georgian architecture it can be a little confusing. Along with the well-known dignified and predominantly symmetrical façades composed of brick, elegant sash windows, and door cases with fanlights, the period saw huge diversity in architectural design including gothick, rococo, chinoiserie, neo-classicism… the list could go on. But underpinning all of these, and seen in the majority of the homes from this era was certainly the preference for Palladianism.
DESIGN EVOLUTION
The baroque architects of the end of the 17th and early
