Transcript History LO: To know about Tudor buildings. Tudor homes      Tudor Architecture (1485 - 1603) 15th century and 16th century You can see many Tudor houses.

History
LO: To know about Tudor
buildings.
Tudor homes
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Tudor Architecture (1485 - 1603) 15th
century and 16th century
You can see many Tudor houses in England
today. Some of them are over 500 years old!
How can you recognise a Tudor House?
Most homes in Tudor times were half timbered they had wooden frames and the spaces
between were
filled with small sticks and
wet clay called wattle and daub.
Characteristics of Tudor Houses
Made from a wooden framework
of beams which are uneven and
can be seen on the outside.
Wattle and daub or stones or
bricks used to fill spaces
between the beams.
 Sometimes first floor hangs out
over the ground floor. This is
called a jetty.
 Steeply pitched roof covered
with clay or stone tiles.
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Tall thin chimneys, often topped with decorative chimney
pots. Tudor Chimneys are also patterned, often with
symmetrical patterns. brick.
Rich Tudor Houses
The rich people lived in country mansions which
were often symmetrical plan - E and H shapes
were popular.
 Glass was fashionable and showed how rich a
person was. 'Look at me, I must be rich because
my house has lots of glass'.
 Windows became the main features on many
rich Tudor houses.
 Hardwick Hall, the great Elizabethan mansion in
Derbyshire with huge windows on all sides, was
laughed at, at the time for being 'more glass
than walls'.
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Hardwick Hall
Stone was very expensive and could only be bought by the very
rich.
Rich or Poor?
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Does this house belong to a rich or poor person?
Hampton Court Palace, was built by Cardinal
Thomas Wolsey between 1515 and 1530.
 King Henry VIII lived at Hampton Court Palace.
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