Tudor style homes have many of these features:
Decorative half-timbering
Steeply pitched roof
Prominent cross gables
Tall, narrow windows
Small window panes
Massive chimneys, often topped with decorative chimney pots ...
Tudor / Tudor Revival Architecture in Buffalo, NY
(sometimes includes Jacobean Revival)
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Tudorbethan architecture
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Tudor style architecture was derived from English architecture during the Tudor period (1485-1558). In the United States, the Tudor style with an asymmetrical design showcases a medieval presence combined with several other style features.
Tudor
A style of architecture dating from the period of the English Tudor monarchs Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. The style is characterized by half timbered houses and is the late perpendicular era.
Tudor Design
Tudor style homes are recognized by the following features:
Massive chimneys, commonly crowned by decorative chimney pots ...
Tudor Revival
Also called Elizabethan or English Revival, the Tudor Revival takes its style from English Renaissance buildings of the 16 th and early 17 th centuries, ...
Tudor Revival
2 stories
Tudor Revival is also called Elizabethan and Half-Timbered. Whatever these houses are called they are another example of the Revival styles which were popular in the early 20th century.
Tudor arch - a triangular arch with soft curves at the bottom two corners.
Tudor Age
This time period includes the styles called Tudor (a style developed during the reign of Henry VIII in the 1500s), Elizabethan, Jacobean, ...
TUDOR ARCH A flattened arch with a center point above a door or window, commonly seen in Tudor Revival style buildings, (also called a 4 centered arch).
TURRET A small tower at the corner of a building.
Tudor : A style of English architecture prevalent during the reigns of the Tudors (1485- 1558), transitional between Gothic and Palladian, with emphasis on privacy and interiors.
Tudor-Elizabethan:
This phase of the English renaissance covered the 1500's on up to about 1603. Furniture shapes are straight and stiff (like gothic), and feature elaborate carving and decoration.
Tudor / Tudorbethon
- the period of the reign of the Tudor monarchs (1485 to 1603), and the styles of architecture and design which prevailed during that time, ...
Tudor -The style is based loosely on a variety of English building traditions. The emphasis was on the simple, rustic and the less impressive aspects of Tudor architecture, imitating in this way medieval cottages or country houses.
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TUDOR
Walls: Half Timbering, stucco, wall surface material extends up into gable without break ...
In height, as related to breadth, the earlier and more reserved French relations were never exceeded, while they were often discounted; until Tudor times the elimination of the wall in favour of skeleton construction combined with glass screens, ...
TUDOR FLOWER: a square flower ornament typical of the Tudor period. TURRET: a small tower, often containing a spiral stair.
It reached its apogee in the late 1500s, toward the end of the long reign of Queen Elizabeth I, and is often considered the last phase of the long-lasting Tudor style.
This is evidenced by the many fine examples, handed down to us by the architects of the Tudor period, to be found in the great mansions which date back to the time of the early Renaissance.
Late English Neo-Classicism came to be seen as élitist; thus, for the new Houses of Parliament the authorities insisted on Gothic or Tudor Revival. The appointed architect, Sir Charles Barry called into consultation A. W. N.
Strictly, the architecture of the English Tudor dynasty (1485-1603), but used more often for late Gothic secular buildings especially of the first half of the 16th century.
History
Prehistory - Roman Britain - Dark Ages - Medieval Britain - The Tudor Era - The Stuarts - Georgian Britain - The Victorian Age
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linen-fold panelling: a form of decoration, commonly found on Tudor woodwork, that resembles folded linen.
lintel: a horizontal member supported at each end by a wall or columns.
Antebellum, Bungalow, Craftsman Bungalow, Greek Revival, Italianate, Neoclassical, Queen Anne, Tudor Revival
Roof Types
Gable, Hipped, Mansard, Shed, Saltbox, Pyramidal, Gambrel, Flat
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A stylised flower, usually based on the lily and with three petals. This is used a great deal in medieval and Tudor architecture as a decoration, owing to its connection to the Royal coat of arms and the Virgin Mary.
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A construction method in which vertical and horizontal timbers make up the frame of the wall, which is then filled in with plaster or brick. A defining element of Tudor-style homes.
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Round bastion: A wide diameter low lying round bastion which was used in the Tudor artillery forts, provided with gun ports and hand gun embrasures, but dead ground was a problem in front of each bastion. See artillery fortress.
architecture, a type of construction in which the heavy timber framework is exposed, and the spaces between the studs filled with wattle-and-daub, plaster or brickwork. The effect of half-timbering was imitated by the Stick, Queen Anne, Tudor and ...
Types of arches include: segmental (low arc), round (semi-circular) horseshoe (three-quarter circle), lancet, pointed (Gothic), trefoil, ogee, four-centered (segmental with round haunches), Tudor (pointed four centered), ...
knot a small, rectangular garden, developed in Tudor times, that consists of an intricate, geometric pattern, or knot, laid out in dwarf plants such as box or rosemary; sometimes the pattern takes the form of objects such as heraldic beasts.
- Cross-ways compartment of a church, generally used as a pair leading off the crossing at the junction of the nave and choir; usually aligned north-south.
Transom rail. - Horizontal bar across the lights of a window.
Tudor period. - 1485-1603.
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