Georgian is an adjective usually associated in the popular mind with refined furniture, elegant clothes, buildings of deceptive simplicity, decorous prose, mellifluous Classical music and country houses set in agreeably designed landscapes. When we talk of Georgian Architecture we usually think of dignified, often symmetrical facades of brick, elegant sash-windows, a door case usually with a fanlight, and a well-mannered and reticent appearance. However there was far more to Georgian buildings, and there is a remarkable diversity of the architecture created during the reignsRead more
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