Architecture of country houses in english style distinguished by conservatism and rigor. Buildings made of brick with recognizable facade decor and convenient layout good for permanent residence or seasonal holiday.

Three types of English houses

There are three architectural trends that characterize UK residential buildings - in their historical and modern form. The traits of each type are easy to trace in their appearance.

Tudor style

Formed in 1500-1600. Structures made of stone look brutal and impressive. The medieval design evokes associations with housing from European fairy tales:

• the building has an asymmetrical layout
• roof - acute-angled multi-slope, covered with tiles
• the facade of the English Tudor style house is decorated with high gables and small dormer windows
• the building is fully or partially covered with rough stone
• The main entrance is decorated with an arched passage
• V modern variation there are large bay windows with glazing

Established in England in 1700-1800. influenced by Italian classicism (Palladianism). Pompous, but at the same time modest buildings form the basis of the suburban development of London; it is with this design that our compatriots associate the concept of a house in the classic British style.

Main features:

• rectangular plan
• symmetrical proportions emphasized by paired chimneys
• uniform distribution of window openings same sizes
• walls - brick or stone, with minimal decor
• projects of houses and cottages in this English style usually have a medium-height roof, with a slight extension over the walls
• the entrance group is decorated with pilasters or half-columns, the door itself is paneled

Victorian Home Design

It emerged in the years 1800-1900, when Italian order canons were replaced by free composition, ease of planning with the abandonment of strict symmetry, and increased decorativeness of English facades. Industrial production made available beautiful design even modest dwellings.

Here are the key characteristics:

• external forms are most often asymmetrical
• the layout includes a veranda on one or two sides, terraces, bay windows
• roof - steep, with round or square towers
• To decorate a house in the Queen Anne style, stone cladding, siding, stucco molding, decorative consoles, and half-timbered construction are used.
• colored walls: blue, brown, white, terracotta, green

Foundation Features

The construction of English-style cottages is characterized by a very low base. This is how it happened historically: good drainage made it possible to build a low foundation, and the floors were located almost flush with the ground. In such housing you have to give up basements and the ground floor; the storage function will be handled by a pantry in the kitchen.

In Russian climatic conditions, a low foundation will require enhanced waterproofing and insulation.

Pointed roof - the calling card of the exterior

Private houses built in the English style have distinctive feature: high pitched roof with difficult terrain. The utilitarian and aesthetic functions are successfully combined here: the large angle of inclination helps rainwater drain faster, and the intricate composition of turrets, gables and canopies is very attractive in terms of design. An overhang protruding along the entire perimeter reliably protects from excess moisture walls and foundation.

Classical roofing material- ceramic tiles, traditionally red. English style modern houses completely suitable for use soft roof the widest range of colors. Dormer windows, characteristic of the external design, participate in the ventilation of the attic space.

Brick houses - classics of English architecture

Today, for the construction of cottages with historical architecture, they use different materials, but British-style house designs made of brick are a traditional solution with important advantages: the buildings are strong, warm, with good sound insulation and resistance to temperature fluctuations. They are perfect for our climate.

The most common house in the English style is a red brick house; it looks natural, strict and elegant. What makes it extremely elegant is the contrasting combination of brick walls and wood trim. white stone, bas-reliefs, columns. IN White color You can also paint the edging that runs along the perimeter of the building. Stucco decoration - rusticated stones, cornices, balustrades - will emphasize the classical heritage of architecture.

The brickwork is usually left without cladding, in rare cases it is finished with stone panels, facade brick, decorative plaster. Our English-style brick mansion project demonstrates the balanced beauty of snow-white columns, pediments, rustications and friezes against the backdrop of red brick facades.

English style house designs: two-story layout

The classic British cottage is designed on two levels.

• The main room on the first floor is a living room, a place for communication and traditional tea drinking.

The room is often combined with a dining room (but not a kitchen) and a spacious hall. The interior must have a fireplace, lined with stone or trimmed with an antique portal. Before invention steam heating The fireplace heated the house, so all living quarters were located around it.

The living room is filled natural light due to large quantity windows, modern two-story projects English houses provide panoramic glazing bay windows in the recreation area.

• The kitchen can be located separately or adjacent to the dining room - but in this case, the cooking area should not be visible from the living room.

Following tradition, a back exit is made from the kitchen - to the backyard. On the first floor there is space for an office and a library, sometimes they are combined.

• On the second level two-story house The master and guest bedrooms are in English style.

In cottages, these rooms are used only for sleeping; their area is usually small, but one of the master bedrooms is necessarily combined with a bathroom and a dressing room.

Sometimes the layout small house, decorated in English, includes an attic. A compact space is being set up under the roof non-residential premises(closet or room for drying clothes). In mansions, attics are full-fledged living rooms.

Modern project options

Our portfolio includes beautiful cottages in the British style, which combine architectural traditions with the requirements of the current level of comfort.

The project of an English house with a terrace demonstrates classical symmetry and strict façade decor. To the left of the central entrance there is a covered area - here you can place a bench or chairs for drinking tea, and there is an open balcony on the second floor on top. Forged openwork railings emphasize the thematic connection of the terrace with the main facade.

In a house with an attic, created in the English style, glazing is successfully combined French windows main floors with richly decorated arched openings on the upper level. Balanced color scheme create red brick, beige smooth stone and dark blue copper tiles.

An English-style house with a garage is a convenient solution for a family with two or three cars. If the garage is adjacent to the main residential complex, the task of the project authors is to make the neighborhood as organic as possible. Compositional unity is achieved through uniform decorative solutions.

Landscape design: everything in the garden!

Building a house in the English style does not mean just building a cottage with a given geometry and decor. True Britons cannot imagine life without a courtyard with flowering front gardens, green hedges, and trimmed lawns. It may be small, but there must be a kindergarten. Looks good vertical gardening- facades entwined with ivy and vines.

The TopDom company designs and builds private houses and cottages in the British style, mansions with attics, and palace-type residences.

You can order architectural, interior and landscape project with all necessary documentation. During turnkey construction, you will receive a house absolutely ready to move in - with furniture, connected communications and full finishing.

The concept of “English style”, now used in relation to projects of houses and cottages, is somewhat arbitrary and simplified. Historically, the style of English housing can be divided into three main large periods:

. Tudor style(XVI - XVIII centuries) - the “hoary antiquity” of English architecture. The buildings of that time are characterized by both brutality and romance - complex plans with numerous projections, steep multi-slope broken roofs, with several high gables different forms and sizes, all kinds of turrets, an abundance of untreated stone and heterogeneous bricks. It is characterized by powerful walls, thick, tall chimneys, and small divisions of the frames of small windows. In general, “my home is my castle.” In modern designs of houses and cottages in the English style, sharp pediments are most often borrowed from this direction; other attributes can also be found today, but only in eclectic non-standard projects of expensive luxury villas.

. Georgian style(XVII - XIX centuries) gravitates towards the classics, differing from it in rougher, simplified forms, and again in brutality. This is the style of mass development of an ancient English city. Georgian houses are simple and rational, rectangular in plan, often with a symmetrical facade with three or five windows, with entrances under a balcony or bay window. Their brick walls sparsely decorated, only around doors and windows, a couple of pilasters or columns at the entrance are allowed. Roofs were no longer made so steep. Now, when talking about a house project in the English style, they usually mean Georgian, or Georgian with echoes of Tudor architecture. It is simple in execution, concise and quite expressive. Georgian housing can be described in one short phrase - a solid brick house.

. Victorian style(XIX - early XX centuries) is very diverse, its representatives have in their appearance features of many other styles and movements: half-timbered houses, buildings in the Art Nouveau style, classical antique, Dutch, ancient English and many other directions of architecture. Life at that time was influenced technical progress acquired lightness and diversity, and at the same time the architecture of residential buildings lost its reliability and solidity. The need to build strong and last is gone. But they appeared small parts facades, large bay windows and stained glass windows, open colonnades, thin intricate turrets and short-lived siding trim. It is almost not associated with English in modern design practice due to the loss of brutality and respectability.

Currently, there are more and more people wanting to move to warmer cozy houses located in settlements remote from the big city. Among the orders construction companies English-style house designs are extremely popular. English classical buildings represent perfect combination functionality, first class performance characteristics and European elegance. Guests and passers-by will experience a lot of positive emotions when entering an atmosphere that is filled with romance and tranquility.

A simple project of an English private house

English rules architectures require special roofing, tiles with multiple bevels are usually used. Also residential buildings of this class are distinguished by a unique internal and external finishing wall panels and facade. The steps have a portico-like design.

The main building material is brick of various types, which is widely used not only in Russian but also in European markets.

Appearance facade of a house in English style, decorated with climbing plants

The choice of building materials used is determined by the weather conditions characteristic of the country: frequent and prolonged rains, cool summers and mild winters. Most of the time is occupied by a season more like Russian autumn. Therefore, we had to abandon the use of wood in construction: it absorbs moisture too quickly and fails.

Along with brick, natural stone is also widely used.

Today it is also used in the construction of English-style houses, but the cost of such buildings is several times higher.

Design features of English-style houses

House designs in the English style are externally distinguished by the almost absence of a foundation. It is made very low, almost invisible. This feature is also explained historically.

English style house project

For the construction of the house, places were chosen that were located on a hill, on rocks and hills. If the house was placed on a flat area, then the entire area was necessarily drained.

A rarity in English houses - ground floors and spacious basements. A storage room is provided, but small sizes, most often for storing food supplies. The entrance to such a pantry is provided from the kitchen.

The complex and interesting roof - a dominant part of the building's exterior - is not just the whims of wealthy Englishmen. Its architecture is thought out to the smallest detail and is very utilitarian. Steep slopes allow maximum protection of the roof and walls of the house from frequent slanting rains. And the overhang, which protrudes far along the entire perimeter, protects from excess moisture getting on the walls and foundation of the building.

English style house project with a complex roof

Despite the fact that the roof has a complex shape and occupies a significant part of the building, English-style house designs practically do not use such an element as the attic. An open half-timbered structure serves as the ceiling of the first or second floor, depending on the number of floors of the building. As a last resort, a small attic can be organized under the roof itself to store old things and equipment.

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House exterior

The finished appearance and true English appearance of the building are given by facade materials and noble landscape. In finishing, preference is given to moisture-resistant materials that are not afraid of rain and are quite durable. Eco-friendliness and naturalness are also not the last requirements for finishing.

Classic house in English style

Exterior of the house

A house made of brick or stone may be left without finishing at all. The rigor and unpretentiousness of the English style allows for simplicity and naturalness in design. If desired, the façade of any house can be faced with façade bricks or stone panels. Decorative plaster followed by painting is also used, but less frequently. Practically not used in exterior decoration tree.

The color range is very diverse. The entire natural palette is used: yellow, sand, brown, beige, reddish shades of clay. Houses built in... look good and expensive. gray tones. Moreover, even monochrome design is allowed: the walls are slightly lighter, the roof is darker.

Solemnity and elegance are given to English exteriors by white or light edging, which can frame the perimeter of the building; all corners, columns and borders on the central facade can also be painted white.

The decoration of English style houses will vary greatly depending on the purpose of the building. Will it be a house for year-round residence of a middle-income family or a country mansion for lords during the autumn hunt. But an indispensable attribute Any building - luxurious or the most modest - will have an impeccably designed garden. The surrounding area is a mandatory addition to an English household.

Landscape design

The surrounding landscape can emphasize the individuality of the building and organically intertwine with it. A luxurious English-style mansion will be perfectly complemented by a strict, perfectly even lawn and neatly trimmed bushes. small house for a family can be supplemented with a simple lawn on which it is comfortable to play or relax.

A complex shady garden in the English style can be laid out next to two-story cottage. The main requirement for an English garden is maximum naturalness and integration with nature. If there is a forest next to the site or fields begin, then the ideal solution would be a garden in which it would be difficult to determine the boundary between natural and artificially created areas.

English-style houses look great surrounded by perennial or century-old trees. Tall, spreading with abundant shade, they will complement both a small one-story house and more serious two-story buildings.

Project of a two-story house in the English style, around which there is an emerald green lawn

The house and the landscape can generally represent a single whole. The British often use vertical gardening when decorating their homes. Suitable for this: classic methods: placing flowers in hanging pots and on multi-level stands.

The old designs of English houses are chronologically the oldest, in area they are much smaller than the Tudor houses that appeared at the end of the 15th century, and even more so the large country Georgian and Victorian cottages, and most closely echo the medieval style. Conventional ones are characterized by a steep pitched roof with cross gables, large stone or brick chimneys at the front of the house, and small window openings double-hung windows. Entrance areas were often gables with a tiled roof that was steep and straight on one side and carefully curved on the other. Doorways are arched or semicircular, richly decorated with fittings and external lighting.

Architectural features of ancient English projects

• The roof is steep and pitched with complex intersecting gables
• Roof covering made of natural clay tiles, preferably old ones - with lichen or moss
• Massive dominant chimney
• Details may include half-timbered and narrow windows with wooden shutters
• Finish - natural or fake diamond, rough plaster and wood

Tudor style houses

Tudor style houses are considered the next step in English cottage architecture. Tudor houses are usually mixed - i.e. the first floor is designed from brick or stone, the second floor mansard type, as a rule, is made using half-timbered technology or with decorative overlays made of timber. Roofs in Tudor style houses steep, pitched, with finely flared curves on the eaves, the windows are high and narrow. Tudor houses, like Old English ones, have massive stove or fireplace chimneys, but they are no longer exposed to the foreground and are located to the side or behind the house. We invite you to familiarize yourself with ready-made projects Tudor houses, or carry out individual design country cottages, carefully planned and functional, according to your wishes.

Georgian houses

The Georgian style of architecture originated in England at the beginning of the 18th century and developed between 1720 and 1840. English Georgian houses are very easy to distinguish from other English designs - they are characterized by precise proportions and balance.

Characteristics of Georgian architecture

• Usually have rectangular symmetrical shapes, windows and doors centered on the front facade.
• Most frequently used building materials is a simple clay brick of dark or light shades.
• Georgian houses are generally two storey, but it is possible to design attic project, or one-story.
• The roof is usually dark.
• The colors are discreet - various shades of red and burgundy, sometimes gray.
• Like any English house, a Georgian project must have a fireplace. Unlike the earlier ones, here you can do without a chimney attached to the side.

English designs in Victorian style

The Victorian style of architecture flourished for a century, from the 1810s to the early 1910s, but is still relevant today. Particularly common in rural areas and suburbs of large cities in the United States. Houses in this style have an asymmetrical facade, steep roof, bay windows and towers decorated with spindles or carvings, porches with pillars and spacious covered terraces or verandas - with decorative railings.

Pediments visually stand out on facades. Decoration of English cottages in victorian style decorated with shingles or siding, the roof is covered with patterned tiles. Traditionally, these houses are mostly two-story or with an attic.