The Corn Exchange is a Grade II listed building in a
neo-Tudor style in the center of Dorchester, or Hardy's "Casterbridge," erected between 1847-1848 by the builder Samuel Slade.
Soane's praise of Vanbrugh's architecture is refreshing as it denies what has become the conventional association--dismally represented by Stratford-upon-Avon--between the world of Shakespeare and half-timbered
neo-Tudor architecture.
The house was designed by Newcastle architect W H Knowles, in a
neo-Tudor style.
The fairytale
neo-Tudor Glenmaroon House was built in 1904 for the then extraordinary sum of PS5,000.
It sits next to the parish Church of St Mary and St Bartholomew and also backs onto the grounds of Hampton Manor (this estate was mentioned as far back as the Domesday Book but the house is 19th century, built in the
neo-Tudor Gothic style).
Albans, it's then a simple ride west on the E train to Jackson Heights, one of the nation's first urban "garden communities," where the streets are lined by block-long brick
neo-Tudor apartment buildings with steep shingled roofs and turrets.
It will be designed to harmonise with the current library's 1902
neo-Tudor style by Chester architect John Douglas.
If the Reception has a
neo-Tudor feel, the staircase remains in its original Jacobean condition, its decorative stairs and associated strap work probably the best examples from this period in Wales.
James Abbott of selling agents Smiths Gore, said: "The Guyzance Estate is fabulous, a complete sporting and residential estate, with a grand
neo-Tudor mansion at its heart, cottages, woodland, fishing and shooting, all in an attractive and accessible position.
It gives it a twist by requiring such houses to be innovative in design, and there has been briefing against neo-Georgian or
neo-Tudor for some reason; but Gummer's Law survives.
Neo-Gothic,
neo-Tudor, Beaux-Arts classicism, Art Nouveau: All had their brief moment before modernism crystallized (at least in the minds of the architectural establishment) as an "appropriate" aesthetic.
The Zoning Board of Appeals denied the application, relying on evidence submitted by objecting neighbors that the subdivision would negatively impact the character of the neighborhood: a modem home in a distinctively
neo-Tudor neighborhood and a home located 40 feet from another home when average distance between other homes is 50 feet, as well as concerns regarding traffic and parking problems.
