Beyond Bridgerton: five Georgian homes for sale in town and country

The Victorians may have been Britain’s most prolific builders, but we suspect the Georgians before them laid much of the requisite groundwork. From Downing Street and the Royal Crescent to the country estates cast by Jane Austen as her stages, their architecture is defined by its keen sense of symmetry and proportion – and the power to pull us back some 300 years. There’s lots to love about the houses from this era, between their shuttered sash windows, columns and crown mouldings, which is why they prove perennially popular with all of you. With that in mind, we’ve selected five remarkable Georgian homes from among our latest listings.

Kennington Road, London

Here’s a home that breaks the mould. It’s one in a row of terraced townhouses in the middle of the Kennington conservation area – so far, so Georgian. But a Victorian shopfront added in the middle of the 19th century has since been coaxed into an airy studio space complete with skylight. The way it frames the original façade is almost museum-like, but enter the old front door and things take a decidedly more traditional turn, from the half-height wood panelling in the hallway to the exposed vaulted ceiling at the top of the house. Thanks to garden access, the lower storey could be sealed off to create a self-contained annexe.

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Etnam Street, Leominster, Herefordshire

The architectural tide was just beginning to turn when this six-bedroom house was built in the early 19th century, so the keen-eyed may spot the very earliest indicators of the Victorian shake-up to come. Still, the house has plenty to appeal to those seeking Georgian sensibilities – and enough historic clout to hold its own among the timber-framed buildings of this Herefordshire market town. Its collector owner has salvaged period-appropriate pharmacy cabinetry and pinpointed sympathetic shades of buttery yellow, burgundy and inky green, while a delicate panel of wall painting, thought to date back around 200 years, sits above a trompe-l’oeil fireplace.

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Woburn Walk, London

Master builder Thomas Cubitt can lay claim to much of London’s most sought-after square footage, from the handsome terraces of Highbury to Pimlico’s well-heeled garden squares, as well as the eastern front of Buckingham Palace. Also his handiwork is the historic streetscape of Woburn Walk, the very first pedestrianised shopping parade in London, still with its original black bow-fronted windows in which 19^th-century retailers would display their wares. This sensational garden apartment is entered at street level and then unfolds over the three storeys above, with generous rooms and a Juliet balcony atop the shopfront.

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Station Road, North Ferriby, East Riding of Yorkshire

There’s little need for solemn analysis of this charming cottage, thanks to the date stone on the façade. That marker posits it squarely in the late 18th century, when many buildings sprung up near the mansions of newly wealthy merchants, to house workers serving there. While cottages can be rather compact, here, a well-judged rear extension has roughly doubled the original footprint of the ground floor without any awkward anachronisms or pastiche. At the same time, it has better connected the house to the pretty garden beyond. Look between the beams and exposed bricks for signs of pre-industrial craft – here handmade nails and hinges; there a pair of early brass Lincoln Imp knockers. 

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Beach Street, Deal, Kent