Good Ol house
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Nifty. I lived in a house just like that when I was a fawn, sort of simple Victorian thing, none too flashy. Of course my house was much older, it was actually built in 1791, it simply received numerous additions and stylistic updates in the nineteenth century, effectively turning it into a Victorian. It was also moved in 1875, a good thousand yards from its original foundations.
Note that they weren't obsessed with making the facade symmetrical and aligned at right angles like they are these days, focusing instead on more subtle geometrical alignment and proportion. (Such as, note that a diagonal line drawn across one of the window sashes is at precisely the same angle as the roof, and a line drawn from the lefthand terminus of that gable nearest to us passes through that small, square window on the left meeting both its upper-left and lower-right corners, and then meets the lower left corner of the taller window to the right. A line drawn from that very point on the lower-left corner of that taller window and passing through the window's upper-right corner will also pass through the very center of that bullseye window, as do many other important ley-lines of the facade. Such is the importance of a bullseye window, put one in the wrong place and it just fucks everything up. Unfortunately that window now lacks its glazing bars.)
Note that they weren't obsessed with making the facade symmetrical and aligned at right angles like they are these days, focusing instead on more subtle geometrical alignment and proportion. (Such as, note that a diagonal line drawn across one of the window sashes is at precisely the same angle as the roof, and a line drawn from the lefthand terminus of that gable nearest to us passes through that small, square window on the left meeting both its upper-left and lower-right corners, and then meets the lower left corner of the taller window to the right. A line drawn from that very point on the lower-left corner of that taller window and passing through the window's upper-right corner will also pass through the very center of that bullseye window, as do many other important ley-lines of the facade. Such is the importance of a bullseye window, put one in the wrong place and it just fucks everything up. Unfortunately that window now lacks its glazing bars.)
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