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Late 1920s/late 1930s - Pre-Second World War
An understanding of the times:
Between the two world wars, A fashion for the Arts and Crafts Movement strongly influenced
the mock Tudor 'cottage-style' architecture of the 4.5 million suburban hoses, the pretty
features of this style have never lost popularity since than. To purists it was a dishonest
style, with the half timbering a decorative feature and not part of the essential framework,
as it had been in the genuine Tudor building. The 'mock' Tudor features were an unnecessary
ornament and the style too 'pretty', to those who thought that function should be put before
aesthetics.
The 'club' of influential
architects of the time were arbiters of taste, and their belief that
they alone understood what was appropriate resulted in the building
in the 1930s of a great many terraced and semi-detached houses in
repetitive and functional styles, which, though home to many a happy
family then and now, did not reflect public taste at the time.
The many-mullioned windows were
often decorated with stained-glass coloured fanlights, with leaded
light casements below, and were unashamedly defaced on a wholesale
basis with the arrival of 'modernisation'. This window conversion
consisted of ruthlessly removing the top fanlights and fitting
louvres for ventilation, and cutting out all the mullions below and
fitting a large single pane of glass in their place. The awful
'picture window' revolution had arrived and was perpetuated by
popular public demand with the advent of 'double glazing'. This
bland style went into a decline partly as a result of a fashion
swing back to a 'prettier' look, and was completely buried with the
introduction in June 1995 of Building Regulations that specified
that all habitable rooms must have a means of escape in the event of
a fire.
Jump to other house-building eras of this century
Late 1800s - the 2 up, 2 down
Edwardian/Victorian – pre-First World War
Post-war - 1940s through 1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s – present day
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