A carriage house, commonly called a coach house nowadays, was traditionally built to house carriages that horses pulled.In modern times, the extra room for horses is more often used for additional guests or as an accommodation business such as Airbnb. In a way, carriage houses function in the...
Coach houses, sometimes called carriages, were originally used to house horse-drawn carriages and were converted to be private dwellings. Now, a coach house can refer to any detached unit on the same property as another building. They can be rented out by the property owner of the main house...
They are the most personally discussed of all Victorian authors, and the limelight of biography has left few darkened corners in the dark old Yorkshire house. And yet the whole of this biographical investigation, though natural and picturesque, is not wholly suitable to the Brontes. For the ...
A carriage house or coach house is a dwelling unit that is typically used as a secondary residence on the same lot as a primary structure, such as a single-family home. The original carriage houses were built to house horse carriages or stagecoaches. As the use of automobiles replaced horse...
After that, the photo of the nannies in Hyde Park brings one up sharp, reminding us how long ago these images were made. These women are old enough to have lost their sweethearts in the Great War, which might account for their choice of occupation. And those ‘baby carriages’ really loo...
followed by forest roads and the lowest effort driving on higher class roads. Passing through the villages, whose roads copy the original unpaved roads originally built for horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians, was (as the measurements showed) significantly more difficult with the longer vehicle. Du...
Victorian-style homes also include sub-styles of Queen Anne, shingle style, Romanesque style, and Italianate, amongst others. Architects designing Victorian homes constructed the homes for beauty rather than functionality and they tend to have large porches, asymmetrical shapes, steeply pitched roofs,...