Houses with these distinguishing characteristics were grouped under the heading of Tudor. In the Washington, DC, area, Tudor homes along with Colonial Revival made up the largest portion of homes built during the s and s. European-trained architects, influenced by Old World styles, brought the eclectic, asymmetrical Tudor style homes to America toward the end of the nineteenth century.
Built for wealthy homeowners, Tudor houses were of solid masonry with elaborate decorative stone and brickwork. The Tudor style fell out of popularity around World War II when a resurgence of patriotism encouraged an appreciation for a more American style, that is, Colonial Revival. Tudor revival architecture was also expensive to build, not easily replicated, and prone to maintenance issues. The residence has a variety of characteristics that make it a highly stylized Tudor, including dormers; richly decorated chimneys; uncoursed stone; half-timbering; wide, decorated verge boards; and a stone porte-cochere.
View our portfolio to view English Tudor and other style homes the Wentworth team has remodeled in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. What makes a house a Tudor? Tudor homes are characterized by their steeply pitched gable roofs, playfully elaborate masonry chimneys often with chimney pots , embellished doorways, groupings of windows, and decorative half-timbering this last an exposed wood framework with the spaces between the timbers filled with masonry or stucco.
There are several easily identifiable features of American Tudors, the first being stucco walls with or without decorative wood half-timbering. View all Seasonal worksheets. View all mammal worksheets. View all marine life worksheets. View all insect worksheets. View all Bird worksheets. View all natural world worksheets. View all earth science worksheets. View all biology worksheets. View all space worksheets. View all science worksheets.
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The frame of a house was mostly based on the wood of timber while the walls and other constructions were done using wattles. Wattles refer to an intertwined placement of wooden sticks. The wattles were smeared over by a daub, which was a mixture of clay, sand and dung. This daub helped keep the wattles in place and reinforced their strength. Limewash paint was also used on the daub to hide its colour and give the house a more uniform and pleasant outlook. On the timber wood, tar was used so that it could be safe from water and any other factors which may cause it to rot.
The limewash and tar gave the houses their iconic black-and-white look. Tudor houses are marked by a number of characteristics. They were built with specific construction materials and the extensive use of wood in such houses was done by using wooden pegs to keep the frame in place.
Most Tudor houses were marked by a tall chimney which protruded above the steep roof. The roof itself was thatched in most constructions, although the use of tiled roofs was common among the more affluent. Gardens were also a common feature of most Tudor houses.
Rich people afforded larger gardens embellished with fountains and other objects while poorer people had smaller gardens in their houses. Inside the home of a medieval merchants house. Despite the many innovative embellishments on the outside of most Tudor houses, such as tiled roofs and well-kept gardens, the interior of the house featured a dirt floor. Such floors were very hard to clean and were often unkempt in most houses. At any time, you can update your settings through the "EU Privacy" link at the bottom of any page.
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