The Georgian House around the World – 15 April 2019

Roger Mitchell is a former College Vice-Principal who now lectures for University of Liverpool and for the Arts Society.

In this lecture he describes how, between 1720 and 1850 one of Britain’s most successful exports was the Georgian House. It was elegant and versatile, particularly suitable for hot climates and a wide variety of building materials. British or local architects might provide plans but a carpenter or bricklayer equipped with a pattern book could produce a satisfactory product. Houses in the British Isles will be described and then their counterparts in the American Colonies, the Sandwich Islands and Australasia, South Africa and Menorca.

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