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Queen Anne Revival architecture in the United Kingdom

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comparatively little to do with Queen Anne. It was the nickname applied to a style which became enormously popular in the 1870s and survived into the early years of this century. 'Queen Anne' came with red brick and white-painted sash windows, with curly pedimented gables and delicate brick panels of
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W. E. Nesfield worked in partnership with Shaw from 1866 to 1869, helping to develop the Queen Anne Revival style. Together they examined the architecture of the English countryside, sketching Kent and Sussex's half-timbered farmhouses and tile-hung cottages, and then the structure and ornamentation
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in the 1860s; they had used and mixed together brick pediments and pilasters, fan-lights, ribbed chimneys, Flemish or plain gables, hipped roofs, wrought-iron railings, sash windows, outside shutters, asymmetry and even sunflower decorations.
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sunflowers, swags, or cherubs, with small window panes, steep roofs, and curving bay windows, with wooden balconies and little fancy oriels jutting out where one would least expect them. It was a kind of architectural cocktail, with a little
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of 31 July 1875 described its own response as "perfect good humour and equal scepticism", considering the style to be artificially based on an eclectic mix and not at all serious.
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mixture of decorative features, that became popular in the 1870s, both for houses and for larger buildings such as offices, hotels, and town halls. It was popularised by
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are related to the British Queen Anne style but with time became increasingly different from it, and in Girouard's view are "both more adventurous and more exciting."
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of houses in country towns, with their red brick, sash windows, plasterwork, pargetting, joinery and rubbed or shaped brick. From this and a measure of
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in west London alongside the work of other contemporary architects interpreting the Queen Anne Revival style, are red brick, walls hung with tiles,
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All of these features can be seen in houses, large or small, of the later part of the Victorian era.
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of 13 January 1874 called it a natural response to the more assertive Gothic Revival, while
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In 1871–3, the Scottish architect J. J. Stevenson built his widely-imitated Red House on
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Professional criticism of the style began quickly, with comments such as that in the
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in a flat facade over a cornice; bay windows, and sashes with louvred shutters.
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architects followed suit, though the younger ones were more accepting;
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remarked on the "excellence both of the materials and workmanship" of
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The Queen Anne Revival style has, as the architectural historian
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Domestic 3: Suburban and Country Houses Listing Selection Guide
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Red brick and tile-hung detail, "a little genuine Queen Anne"
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The Queen Anne Revival was to a large extent anticipated by
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Characteristic features of Shaw's houses, well seen in the
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Sweetness and Light: The Queen Anne Movement, 1860–1900
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in it, a little Dutch, a little Flemish, a squeeze of
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Queen Anne Revival architecture in the United Kingdom
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The lay press was more relaxed about the new style;
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Brentford and Chiswick (UK Parliament constituency)
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Index


Norman Shaw Buildings
Victoria Embankment
Westminster
eclectic
Norman Shaw
George Devey
George Frederick Bodley
George Gilbert Scott
Norman Shaw
W. Eden Nesfield
J. J. Stevenson
Philip Webb
Architecture of Bedford Park
Mark Girouard
genuine Queen Anne
Robert Adam
Wren
François 1
Red brick and tile-hung detail, "a little genuine Queen Anne"
"curly pedimented gables ... a little Dutch"
"small window panes, ... bay windows, wooden balconies"
"little fancy oriels"
"delicate brick panels of sunflowers"
Richard Norman Shaw
Bedford Park garden suburb
gables
bay windows
terracotta
rubbed brick

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