VICTORIAN HOUSE


Contents
Overview
Features
United Kingdom
Further Reading

Overview


'A Typical Victorian house'

A 'Victorian house' as built in the United States and Canada is a type of house popularized in the Victorian era. They are often three stories high with an octagonal or rounded tower, a wraparound porch and great attention paid to detail. The architectural style of a Victorian house is often either Queen Anne, Stick, Italianate, French Second Empire, or Richardsonian Romanesque. Shingle Style houses are also considered Victorian houses. Victorian houses are sometimes called gingerbread houses for their elaborate porch and gable ornamentation. The Victorian house shown in the picture has curved glass windows in the tower. A group of multi-colored Victorian houses in San Francisco are known as Painted ladies.

Features


Victorian houses usually have these features:

★ A rounded tower

★ A verandah

★ Bay windows

★ Dormers

United Kingdom


In the United Kingdom, a Victorian house is any house built during the reign of Queen Victoria, in any style of Victorian architecture.They typically have slate rooftops and bay windows.

Further Reading



★ Daughters of Painted Ladies: America's Resplendent Victorians, , Michael, Larsen, E. P. Dutton, 1987,

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