Back to Brentford's "Golden Age" - # 08/44
This house, like the other I showed is also in The Butts, and probably dates from about 1700 (I'm taking an educated guess - so forgive me). Throughout the 18th C the town became busier and busier because of its good strategic location on the main road from London to the West (and it still is!). River transport of agricultural goods and even fishing brought wealth, and it seems that barges brought barley, and so beer brewing was also "big money". In 1805 the Grand Junction Canal arrived and "technology and transport of goods" drove the town downhill from then on. Tomorrow you will see the remains of why it became "the filthiest place in England"...............Be afraid! Be very afraid!
At least, it is definitely not filthy any more!!
ReplyDeleteI am! I absolutely adore this house. My dream house, really, apart from a big farmhouse in the country, this is just ideal. Perhaps if i win the lottery over at my blog today, i'll put in a bid!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful house, wonderful proportions. They knew what they were doing in those days.
ReplyDeleteFor all it's apparent simplicity, I don't believe the Georgian style has ever been surpassed as a model for domestic architecture. It's maybe not too fanciful to imagine it was a contributing factor to the scientific and philosophical revolutions of the enlightenment. One can imagine the light of reason entering these high spacious drawing rooms. Times were hard for others in those days, not to forget of course.
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