My 1935 English Style House

[stuart45]

Slate makes a great roof. I'm building an extension at the moment on our cottage and have used slate (14x6inch). Took a while as they are reclaimed Welsh and I had to re hole all 2,200 of them.
Jen, your house reminds me of a typical country vicarage. Is it solid stone, or stone veneer with stud inner walls?

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Impressive work, Stuart. I really like the clean lines of the slate you chose. It was well worth the effort!
Thanks Jen.

I am assuming that the stone is a veneer, but I don't really know for sure. The house is stone on all sides. The house was constructed in the "junior beam" method, with poured concrete and steel beams. The walls are all plaster, and so is the crown molding.

I am very interested in the comments about the style of my house. In what part of Great Britain have you seen houses that are similar in style?
All over the country. A lot of vicarages were built close to the church in Victorian times. The vicarage was usually one of the largest houses in the village. Those tall gables were common on this type of build. The Victorians did take some features from previous styles though.
Do you have any pictures? Would these houses commonly be located next to churches like a rectory in the U.S.? What do the insides of these houses look like?

What would you call this style in Great Britain? I know that the term "Tudor" is somewhat overused in the U.S. I wondered myself if my house would just be English Country style instead.
Tudor style houses here often have the black and white timbers on the external walls on the upper floors

I hope that's not too many questions. Thank you for your comments.

[stuart45]

Have at look at this Jen. Scroll down to the vicarage at the bottom.
http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.u ... church.htm

[mifoursquare]

What a beautiful house. The attention to detail is incredible! I love the deep entryway and door, and have never seen a kitchen ceiling like that. The whole kitchen is killer. Enjoy her, she is special!

[tudorrevival]

Stuart, thank you for all of the great information.

Mifoursquare, thanks for the nice comment. This site is such a treat. I live looking at everyone's houses.

[Sombreuil_Mongrel]

That is an exquisite house, everything is such high quality. The carved entrance arch is amazing.
I think the ceilings and baths are vitrolite, a special kind of colored plate glass. Don't ever change them, as that is a unique material, and the only such residential applications I have ever seen (vitrolite is most usually found in commercial/storefronts).
Thanks for the great photos and enjoy it!
Casey

[tudorrevival]

Thank you, Casey! You are right on about the structural glass. Here, the product was called Carrara Glass, but it is the same thing as Vitrolite. It is all over the ceilings in our bathrooms as well, and we are definitely keeping all of it. We have spent significant $$$ having the grout restored because it was in bad shape and there was a lot of grout.

[melissakd]

Oh, how swell!!! I particularly love the fireplace, which in this period of house I don't often like.

I could just die over your structural glass. Incredible. I'm so glad you knew what it was and saved it. My own sad tale is that I almost bought a house with structural glass in the bathroom, but someone else got to it first and removed the glass. [Casey, the kicker for me was that the original owner had used what must have been exterior panels as a kind of wainscoting. The bathroom walls were partly torn up and we could see that each panel was about 30"-36" square, and an inch or two thick.]

Are you planning to replace those nice new bath fixtures?

Pleased to meet you!

MelissaKD

Edited to add: Perhaps your public library has older town records; mine does, but it's big on genealogy so it may not be typical.

[tudorrevival]

Thanks for your nice comments, Melissa. When we looked at the house for the first time, we didn't know the proper name for the glass, but we knew it was something special. That is too bad that the new owners of your "house that got away" removed the glass.

We are lucky to have all of the original toilet paper holders, shower curtain rods, medicine cabinets, soap dishes and towel rods.

[melissakd]

I'm the only person on earth who would ever notice the bathroom fixtures, believe me. The main reason I know anything at all about it is that after the first 1910-ish house got away, we had an 1890s Queen Anne get away, then an 1875ish Italianate, then a 1920-ish shotgun cottage, and finally we bought the house in my signature pic, which is 1864/1895ish and not any of the above styles. Naturally I've mentally renovated all five of them, over many happy hours of researching and shopping.

And I firmly believe the 1970s were the all-time nadir of decorating, so I salute your effort to improve matters.

MelissaKD

[rkcorrigan]

wow you are right! Your staircase railing, vestibule and niche look very similar to ours. Such a shame that someone removed all of the original doors. You have a real beauty there.