Architectural Styles

    Georgian

    Alt names / subperiods 

    Timeline

    Distinguishing Features

    Geographic Presence

    King George 1-IV

    House of Hanover Monarchs

    Colonial Georgian (USA)

     

    Wikipedia

    1714-1830

    • Symmetrical facades
    • elaborate panelled front doors with fanlights
    • sash windows
    • brick or stone
    • clean, simple aesthetic
    • ‘decorative cornices
    • moldings
    • sometimes pilasters
    • UK
    • Colonial America
    • Australia
    • Canada

    Common Building Types

    Landmark buildings

    Historic Accommodation Types

    Accommodation Examples

    • Residential homes
    • churches
    • libraries
    • courthouses
    • British Museum London
    • Holburne Museum Bath
    • Assembly Rooms Bath
    • Fenton House London
    • St. Martin-in-the-Fields London
    • State House Maryland
    • Salisbury Cathedral Close
    • The Cirucs Bath
    • Massachusetts Hall Harvard Uni
    • Throckley Hall
    • Westover Plantation Virginia
    • Governor’s House Williamsburg
    • Georgian townhouse hotels
    • Terrace-house guesthouses / B&Bs
    • Georgian coaching inns
    • Country house hotels (Georgian manor conversions)
    • Spa-town (Bath, Cheltenham, Buxton) Georgian hotels
    • Historic clubs / civic buildings converted to hotels
    • Serviced apartments in Georgian buildings
    • TNo. 16 Royal Crescent  Bath
    • ‘The Dunstane Houses Edinburg
    • The Rutland Hotel Edinburgh
    • Hazlitt’s London, England
    • The Academy London
    • The Montague on the Gardens London
    • The Old Queen’s Head
    • Several historic inns around Cotswolds or Surrey
    • The Black Swan Helmsley
    • Sudeley Castle Lodgings Gloucestershire
    • Balcarras House (Georgian manor) Gloucestershire
    • Elcot Park Hotel Somerset
    • Homewood Hotel near Lacock, Wiltshire
    • Royal Crescent Hotel & Spa Bath
    • The Francis Hotel Bath
    • Crescent Hotel Buxton, Derbyshire
    • Georgian House Hotel London
    • Adelphi Guest House Edinburgh
    • Beechwood Guesthouse Bath
    • Georgian Court Serviced Apartments Dublin
    • Queen’s Terrace Apartments Clifton, Bristol
    • The Merrion Hotel  Dublin
    • The Shelbourne Dublin
    • Old Bell Hotel in Malmesbury, Wiltshire

    Landmarks

    Original Accommodation

    Adapted Visitor Accommodation