Georgian Overview: the Style, Period, Houses

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Brent Hull

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@benjaminfisher5809 3 жыл бұрын

Fascinating could listen to you all day talk this. Thanks

@BrentHull 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks

@CHenry1951 3 жыл бұрын

Brent, thanks this was a great lecture on the history of building resources, these people were real craftsmen, if needed it you made it .......................

@BrentHull 3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Thanks.

@patriciapetersen904 3 жыл бұрын

Looking forward to more like this. The added historical/human context brings it to life - you're a good story teller! The appr 10 min length works - easy time commitment & info easily digested. It helps when you show the graphics full-screen as you talk about them - easier to see on phones, etc. Thank you for this priceless knowledge. The builders and their customers NEED it!

@BrentHull 3 жыл бұрын

Cool. Thanks for watching.

@tc9148 3 жыл бұрын

Outstanding, love the historical context.

@BrentHull 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much.

@theofarmmanager267 3 жыл бұрын

I appreciate that your focus is the US - so my comments are not strictly relevant. We ((UK) also had very great regional differences to the materials used in building. The south east had a lot of clay and so clay tile roofs (the classic peg tile which is so valuable now) were prevalent. Similarly bricks although before 1750, they tended not to structural but used as infill between the timber frame. ; the Weald of Kent was a large area of forest ; lots of oak (quercus quercus) for construction and charcoal-making and relatively poor quality iron ore. This made it the ideal centre for iron working in the Roman period (2nd to 4th century) with the original centres for gun making and ship building being here right through past the Tudor period (16th and 17th centuries). Then production moved to the midlands of the UK where coal and better iron ore had been discovered. There remain a lot of reminders of that period in places and road names etc. The original forest is now largely gone with just a few remnants left. We also had Kentish rag stone from which the Tower of London was built. However, that was originally just for the finest houses. So, here you see a few rag stone houses but mostly timber frame with clay roof and brick infil. The use of brick as a structural material really happens here in the 17th century onwards. We also had a lot of flint which is part of the extensive chalk features known as the Downs. Downs is an old Kentish name for hills; Yorkshire called them Dales - every area had different names. So, we see many houses built with stone or brick corners (the expensive materials) and cut flint as the infill. What this means is that, even within one county (Kent is 60 miles east/west and 40 miles north/south?) a huge variance in what was local. Except for the very best buildings, no materials were transported. In the west of England, there were few of these materials and so houses were built of cob walls and thatched roof. The thatch was local straw; the cob was packed mud made from the local earth. Cob may sound pretty temporary but there are a lot of cob houses still remaining 500 years after they were built. The secret to longevity in a cob house is that it doesn’t get wet. That means the first layers above ground (typically no in ground foundations) were built from bits of brick or stone) then cob and finally the roof would be very thick and overhanging the walls by quite a bit. The thickness prevented water getting in and the overhang meant that drips fells wide of the walls. Everything else needed was also made very locally. There were blacksmiths in every town, village and hamlet. There were rope makers everywhere. We know all this because, if nothing else, so many places still have roads called Rope Walk (where they used to walk the rope whilst twisting it). We all had tanneries - tan yards. Everywhere brewed beer because beer was safe and fresh water was not. Although not known at the time, because water was boiled during beer-making, all the parasites and bacteria (including cholera) were killed. The first lot of beer from any one brew was the strongest; the best lot was a bit weaker until you got to the weakest, which was small beer and drunk by everyone, adult and child, as their everyday drink instead of water. We have a lot of buildings surviving from about 1070 onward. These are almost all stone buildings such as churches and castles (or related to ecclesiastical and military). We have domestic or commercial buildings which say they date from not long after that but I wonder how much of the construction we see is original and not replaced in later centuries. We certainly have many houses that we can say for certain were built in and look quite like they were in the 14th and 15th centuries. Dendochronoligy proves this. Again, ramble upon ramble. If any likes these bits, please like or comment and I will do more

@BrentHull 3 жыл бұрын

It's fascinating. Thanks for sharing. I love building history and have not spent much time on English building history. If you know more about the Tudor period and especially woodworking, I'm all ears. Thanks.

@theofarmmanager267 3 жыл бұрын

@@BrentHull I’m happy to write down what I know to the best of my knowledge to be correct. Of course, the Tudor period is defined by monarchs which are irrelevant to house building techniques; perhaps more relevant to the stone and brick palaces, but nothing to influence the timber framed. So what I will write is not confined to the strict Tudor period but is probably better defined as late medieval period. That’s nice and vague. I’ve done a few things in green oak; some have been stand alone but others have had to match the existing. This does give you an insight into the thinking of the builder. However, I didn’t go so native as to use the tools available to the builder around 1550; I used as many power tools as I could - just as that Tudor builder would have done if he had access to them. How do you want me to post them? Just as a comment to any of your videos?

@Niels_Dn 3 жыл бұрын

Very informative!

@BrentHull 3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@Niels_Dn 3 жыл бұрын

@@BrentHull I was also wondering if there are certain elements that can be traced back to certain colonialists, is that possible? I can imagine e.g. that there are elements from Dutch Baroque in the NY region.