My house was built in 1751. Well according to an engraving above my front door. Apparently one of the three oldest buildings in the village and it was built as the headmasters building.
Hmm Wiki is wrong then … bummer … thanks for the info! Such a gorgeous part of the country. It (Cotswolds) took my breath away when I first experienced it!
The chimney pots aren’t indicative of the age of the entire building. If someone who lives in a 100-year-old house gets double glazed windows installed you wouldn’t base the house’s age off of the windows.
Also building material in houses like this were dictated by locality, not fashion. The Cotswolds doesn’t have rich clays required to make bricks but it does have lots of chalky golden sandstone. Besides that, brick was actually far more popular during the Tudor–Stuart period. By the Georgian era, sandstone and granite were by far the fancier fashionable materials to use in stately homes. (Again, the regular folks who lived in villages just like Castle Combe would’ve resorted to whatever was to hand.)
The buildings in this picture date from around the 17th century.
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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '22
Gorgeous! Where is this?