The Victorian Architecture is refereed to the architecture during the reign of Queen Victoria.
Queen Victoria
The Victorian period is the time when Queen Victoria ruled Britain from 1837 to 1901.During this period new inventions in Railway and manufacturing process made building materials manufactured available more abundantly every where in England because of cheaper cost of transport..
This helps industries develop, due to rising demands and building material were made available cheaply, to all over England, such as timber, bricks and slate. This is the era which Charles Dickens describes the city of London with vivid details in the Tale of two cities ( London and Paris) and in The Great Expectation.
The working population in the countryside was still living in tiny cottages, hovels and shacks .. In urban area, the poor people lived in terraced houses.Terraced Houses were made of brick walls and simple brick sills and chimneys with window that constituted the architecture of that time.
Terrace housing during the Victorian era
Villa reflecting the Victorian Architecture
public housing in town reflecting the Victorian Architecture
The wealthy people in Victorians preferred villas ( not the same as Roman villas), The middle classes lived in superior terraces with gardens in the rear of the house and in the front of the houses. What where the character tic features of Victorian Houses, Villa.
The Terrace House which was propagated widely as an acceptable mode of housing in the countries ,which Britain were ruled all over the world were a derivative of the Victorian era. It constituted the following character:
- Red face Brick
- High window with stone borders
- Pediments over the window
- Arched doors ways
It should be noted it was during the Victorian Era the British empire expanded all over the world and the inhabitants of the British empire imbibe the Victorian education, which help to spread the knowledge of laws, English, Christianity,sciences, geography, engineering,land surveying, town planning, public administration. etc which educated the world at large. Roads and railway Infrastructures were constructed which helped to develop the nations such as Singapore, Israel, Middle East, India and Africa. After the World War II it retracted from governing the Empire and Independence given to all the Commonwealth nations, it had shrunk being a super power.
