What original features would there have been??

BobProperty

Debt_Free_Chick wrote:

....Fire surround - definitely not marble. Far, far too expensive & "posh". Possibly slate - possibly slate painted to look like marble (but I doubt it).....
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.....

Bit of a crush in the doorway with our answers there DFC

IIRC the cheap fire surrounds were timber painted to look like marble.

From the description I would have thought that if the front door opened directly onto the street then there wouldn't be the room for tiles, all the floor being timber. If there is a doorstep / porch area then I would expect that to be tiled.

chivers1977

There is a hallway which leads to the stairs and living room so there is room for tiles. I think that I might go for cast iron fireplaces, there is skirting and plain cheap coving at the mo. What was the concensus on picture rails etc? The rooms would originally have been around 11 x 11 each on the ground floor but have been knocked through.

Chatham was a dockyard so may well have been dockers houses so definitely lower-class, well otherwise we couldn't live there LOL!

Thanks for your help everyone...

Debt_Free_Chick

chivers1977 wrote:

Chatham was a dockyard so may well have been dockers houses so definitely lower-class, well otherwise we couldn't live there LOL!

I've just realised that my original comment could be seen purely as being rude :eek: which was definitely not my intention

I only meant .... don't do it up like a Stately Home if you want to restore it "authentically"

chivers1977

Definitely no offence taken DFC. Chatham isn't exactly known for being upper class!! Nor is where I live at the moment either!

thanks for your help