Figure 29.6 A three-bay red-brick Georgian terrace house with a cast-iron balcony (left). The roof cannot be seen from street level. A Georgian-style bedroom (right).
Rooms in the reception areas of the more ordinary houses would have had a plaster ceiling rose as a centrepiece and elaborate cornices. The ceilings of the basement and the top floors would have been quite plain. Stucco or wood carving was used for ‘overdoors’, which decorated the doorways of the main rooms. Swags, urns, heads or simple fluting were in the range of designs used in these areas. Fine joinery was a feature of Georgian houses: panelled doors and shutters, decorative door frames and balustrades, well-made sash windows with thin glazing bars, fine-patterned framing on fan lights all carried out to the highest standards.
www.numbertwentynine.ie has an introduction to the Georgian Museum which will help you understand life in a Georgian house. Video and virtual reality are used to explain the house. Take notes or, better still, visit the house.
Artists and Artworks
Henrietta Street, which is just off Bolton Street on the north side of the city, was the earliest example of the Georgian terrace (Fig. 29.7). Large four-storey houses, which were four or five bays wide, had big
