Neo-Tudor

Descriptive of a Neo-Eclectic architecture, vaguely imitative of its earlier Tudor architecture and Tudor Revival prototypes. Houses are usually one or two stories with front-facing gables, and generally usually characterized by: false half-timbering and strapwork employed as decorative elements; masonry or stucco walls on the ground floor, sometimes with a different treatment on the walls of the floor above; occasionally, an overhanging upper story; a shingle-covered, steeply pitched roof; prominent chimney stacks; groups of tall, narrow windows separated by mullions, often set with small panes of leaded glass that are either diamond-shaped or square-shaped, set diagonally.

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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.

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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.

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The house was designed by Newcastle architect W H Knowles, in a neo-Tudor style.

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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).

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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.

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It will be designed to harmonise with the current library's 1902 neo-Tudor style by Chester architect John Douglas.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.