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What original features would there have been??
chivers1977
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I am buying a 3 bed victorian terraced cottage in a city. One of the ones that doesn't have a front garden as is right on the pavement and has a cellar and loft. Not a town house, I describe it more as a Coronation Street house!!
Anyway, what original features would there have been in there. ie would it have been cast iron fireplaces that are quite narrow and picture rails or dado and marble fireplaces........:beer: :beer: :beer:
thanks
Anyway, what original features would there have been in there. ie would it have been cast iron fireplaces that are quite narrow and picture rails or dado and marble fireplaces........:beer: :beer: :beer:
thanks
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Picture rails and coving .The coving would have been plaster and probably patterned. We had a sort of mosaic tiled doorstep and I think we had stained glass in the door but it was a long time ago so not sure on that.
Probably sash windows too.
I think the bigger semi/detached houses had more opulent fixtures.
All what you say, maybe even gas lights.
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This might help
Oh, and you might have Encaustic tiles in the door way (I think that's what culpepper was refering to).
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A couple of pointers ..... yours will have been the home of a working class person - possibly a shipyard worker or a worker in an associated job? So the house would have been modest.
Fire surround - definitely not marble. Far, far too expensive & "posh". Possibly slate - possibly slate painted to look like marble (but I doubt it).
Fireplace - definitely cast iron. Not too ornate. Tiled insert unlikely (but possible).
Woodwork - doors, skirting etc. Would be pine - but definitely NOT stripped. It would have been stained/painted to look like mahoghany or possibly oak.
Encaustic tiled floor - probably. They were invented in the 1840s so I guess they would have been "all the rage" by 1895, even in a modest working class home. Some good examples here
You would find this book fascinating and useful - but not cheap.
HTH
http://uk.propertyfinder.com/2/pf/da/tiscali/guides/chooseAndBuy/artsAndCrafts.do;jsessionid=6ABC20DD7EA40E15A77CDF54060B204D
http://www.achome.co.uk/interiors/interiors.htm
To be accurate I would say also don't go towards either Art Nouveau (which had only just started) or anything of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. What was fashionable in Upper Class London took years to reach the provinces and the less well off.
Just don't go buying the original wallpaper :rotfl:
http://www.sandersonfabrics.co.uk/acatalog/Morris_Hand_Printed_Wallpapers.html
:eek: Not very MSE at £674.56 plus VAT per roll
Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others.
I have writer's block - I can't begin to tell you about it.
You told me again you preferred handsome men but for me you would make an exception.
It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.