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How use of Belgravia properties to buy has changedThroughout most of the Victorian period, builders constructed Belgravia properties to buy as ever larger family houses and did not see flats as a market to cater to. By the late Victorian period Belgravia properties to buy were beginning to become smaller, and the sale of flats in Belgravia was becoming more prevalent. From then on some Victorian Belgravia properties to buy were genuinely purpose-built for sale as flats. Many Belgravia properties to buy which were built as houses have long since been sub-divided into flats. This continued in the 20th century and particularly from the 1970s onwards many period houses were converted to flats. |
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How the Great Fire of London influenced Belgravia properties to buyUniformity of appearance in Belgravia properties to buy results to a considerable extent from building regulations introduced after the Great Fire of London. Walls of Belgravia properties to buy had to be made of brick or stone. The rules for building Belgravia properties to buy severely restricted the use of wood to reduce fire risk. No wood could be placed within one foot of the front of a chimney. Timber in Belgravia properties to buy was banned inside walls round chimney flues. |
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The Georgians introduced terraces for Belgravia properties to buyMost Belgravia properties to buy were built in terraces throughout the 19th century. Brick properties to buy in terraces was a creation of the Georgian age. The earliest Georgian terraces were uniform in style and symmetrical in layout. As time passed a more elaborate design, following Italian examples, developed and Belgravia properties to buy had facades containing decorative mouldings, classical pilasters, and pediments. In the 1720s the “palace fronted terrace” came into fashion for Belgravia properties to buy . The whole terrace was treated as one composition, with a long stuccoed front elevation with pilasters at intervals and a central pediment over the Belgravia properties to buy in the middle.
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Squares of Belgravia properties to buyMany Victorian developments of Belgravia properties to buy followed a basic garden square pattern. Houses were built round specially constructed squares. One drawback of this design for Belgravia properties to buy was that there was a road between the square and the Belgravia properties to buy whose front windows overlooked it. Later Victorian developers reversed this and constructed Belgravia properties to buy with “hidden gardens” where the gardens were placed between the backs of the houses properties to buy and to which the houses had rear access. Throughout the period Belgravia properties to buy might have small front areas, but not considerable front gardens. |
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Features of Belgravia properties to buyThe façade of Belgravia properties to buy would be brick faced, with plain inset sash windows and doors, with a metal balcony at the first floor level. This design was established during the Georgian period and became the typical design from then onwards for most London houses and did not change significantly until until the last quarter of the 19th century. Brick walls were only used internally at basement level or to support a stone wall-hung staircase, or to give added structural support in particularly large Belgravia properties to buy . The joists supporting the floors which ran between the front and back walls of such Belgravia properties to buy were wood. So was the framework of the internal partition walls from the ground floor upwards. A timber frame formed the internal construction of all but the larger houses. The main structure of such Belgravia properties to buy was a rectangular box, built in stock-brick, and topped with a roof of Welsh slates. The roof of these Belgravia properties to buy was either concealed behind a brick parapet or built in the form of a mansard with dormer windows.
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Internal layouts of Belgravia properties to buyThe average sized house was about 20 feet wide and 30 feet deep, with three or four storeys above a basement. Internally the layout was surprisingly uniform. The successful pattern for residential Belgravia properties to buy had been devised in the 18th century and builders stuck to it. The Belgravia properties to buy houses had just one room to each floor. So if the frontage of such Belgravia properties to buy was 24 feet wide, the house was usually 24 feet deep. In Georgian times, the standard design of a terraced house changed to the double pile house, meaning the house was two rooms deep on each floor. |
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Different types of Belgravia properties to buyThe Building Act of 1774 classified new Belgravia properties to buy into 4 “rates” depending on the value of the house. Each type of Belgravia properties to buy had its own structural rules. (The poor were not to be as well protected as the rich.) “First rate” Belgravia properties to buy had to have a minimum floor space of 900 square feet. “Second rate” Belgravia properties to buy could be between 500 and 900 square feet. For “third rate” Belgravia properties to buy it was 350 to 500 square feet and for “fourth rate” it was a minimum of 350 square feet. But although the minimum size of a house was specified, there was no restriction on the number of people who could live there. |
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Basements of Belgravia properties to buyThe basements of Belgravia properties to buy were the locations for the Victorian kitchen, scullery and pantries. The basement doorway in Belgravia properties to buy was normally situated under the stone bridge which spanned the area at street level to give access to the front door, and the service and social entrances to the front of the house were thus quite separate. Circular iron plates let into the pavement allowed the delivery of coal to be made directly from the merchant’s cart into brick-lined vaults which communicated with the area of Belgravia properties to buy . |
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Changes to the ground floor of Belgravia properties to buyThe Georgians kept the ground floor for services and servants' accommodation and themselves lived on the first floor of Belgravia properties to buy . But by Victorian times the ground floor of Belgravia properties to buy became the main family floor. It usually contained a dining-room at the front and a parlour or morning-room at the back. The entrance hall and then the stairs of Belgravia properties to buy were on one side. The result was that the rear parlour was usually narrower than the dining-room because it had to accommodate the width of the stairs and usually the continuance of the passage out to the back of the house. The dining-room might be a little deeper than the front rooms on the upper floors of Belgravia properties to buy and was sometimes finished with a sideboard recess at its inner end. |
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Sleeping areas in Belgravia properties to buyIn larger Belgravia properties to buy the stair to the top floor might take the form of a small accommodation stair outside the main stairwell, and in such cases it was normally of timber construction. The owner’s bedroom would usually be on the second floor, with provision for children’s rooms and servants’ rooms on this or higher floors in accordance with the scale of the house. The bedroom floors of Belgravia properties to buy were usually similar in plan to the living room floors but were sometimes subdivided into smaller rooms, particularly on the top floor. |
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