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We recognize this style from its steeply pitched roofs, often with half timbering in-filled with brickwork, tall mullioned windows and overhanging first floors above pillared porches. Note the fortress-like stone arch on this model. What we call English Manor is more properly referred to as Tudorese: a mash-up of English Tudor, Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Queen Anne style. After centuries of evolving style it’s hard to say what’s authentic these days, but what does it matter?
This is the style of storybook art over centuries of solid, timber frame buildings with heroic figures sword-fighting in the courtyard, or Shakespearean types hoisting tankards of ale inside smoky village pubs. Over the centuries building technology has eliminated the need for the load capacity of timber frame and masonry to support the large upper story masses, but we still respond to the solid, traditional look of the English country manor home. The English Manor style where the River Bends, though more referential than structural, evokes the same good feeling as the original. We just love the look. |
