VICTORIAN BUILDINGS

Has anyone heard of a style of architecture called Victorian buildings? I'm sure you have, however, I'm also sure that only few knows its structure and its style. Today I would like to explain to explain it to you!

When we say Victorian buildings, we are usually referring to buildings constructed between the late 1890s and up to about 1900. 

Victorian buildings are quite readily identifiable as a rule, although they show a remarkable variety in their forms of construction. mass production techniques and mass transportation of many  building materials were developed throughout this time

Most Victorian buildings have a square, solid look to them, unsurprising in an era of new industrial engineering.

There were no bathrooms in the majority of cases, and so in more recent times the coal-shed and privy to the rear of the house will have given way to a ground-floor extension housing the bathroom.

Where brick was used, it was usually red brick; yellow stocks had been common until the beginning of the nineteenth century when mass-production techniques of red bricks made red the more fashionable colour.

Although many Victorian buildings are of solid wall construction, cavity walls were developed in this time as well, with varying degrees of success.

 Cast iron wall ties were used, and damp proof courses became mandatory through the 1870s.

 When bricks are wetted by rain, moisture is absorbed into the exposed face of the brick.If a frost follows, the water in the face of the brick freezes and expands, and causes the face of the brick to break away.