Getting to Know Your Period Home
Have you just bought a period house? Getting to know it? Bricks & Brass presents a uniquely detailed web guide to the history of your home.
Gallery
In our Gallery, you can see photos of a variety of houses.
How Old Is It?
The first step in getting to know your house is to find out how old it is. As your own house detective, you will want to know when was it built? Some older houses hide a long history; a medieval house has perhaps been 're-skinned' with Georgian brickwork, extended in the 1850s and again in 1920. Victorian and Edwardian houses are less likely to have seen such radical change.
To date your house, we have advice on research and a dating tool.