Elizabethan and Jacobean House Style 1560-1660

• Brick and mortar became more prevalent down the social scale and farm houses being built with brick in an 'E' or 'H'.
• Houses became more symmetrical and faced outwards and not on to the courtyard displaying the owners wealth with a large number of windows.
• Columns an pediments were used but as decoration and did not consider proportion.
• Chimneys were becoming standard.
• Beams were more decorated.
• Windows had more decorated patterns but the diamond-shaped leaded windows were quite popular.
• Most houses for the lesser off were still made out of wood.reat halls were replaced with individual rooms.
• Stairs rose to prominence as now the upstairs rooms were important.
• Plaster ceilings are seen in finer houses but otherwise the beams were exposed in others.