The design and description appeared in Domestic Architecture: Being a Series of Designs for Mansions, Villas, Rectory Houses, Parsonage Houses, Bailiffs’ Lodge, Gardener’s Lodge, Game-keeper’s Lodge, Park Gate Lodges, Etc. in the Grecian, Italian, and Old English Styles of Architecture. With Observations on the Appropriate Choice of Site; the Whole Designed with Strict Reference to the Practicability of Erection, and with Due Attention to the Important Consideration of Uniting Elegance, Convenience and Domestic Comfort with Economy … With Accurate Estimates Appended to Each Design (1833).
This Swiss chalet style is part of the Romantic era of late Georgian, long Regency with its gabled roofs and wide eaves, decorative balconies and carving, and overall facade design that flew in the face of neoclassism’s need for symmetry and balance. Not quite Gothic, it would have the storybook charm of later Carpenter Gothic. In a sea of Palladian, Neoclassical, Italianate style buildings favoured during the era, these romantic designs would tie in elements of the Jacobethan style yet on a more modest, homey scale. Unbelievable to achieve on a 600 GPB budget, the equivalent to just under $100k in today’s currency (Currency Converter, Pounds Sterling to Dollars, 1264 to Present (Java)).
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