tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post5261429105459322724..comments2024-03-25T15:10:13.792+00:00Comments on English Buildings: Dartmouth, DevonPhilip Wilkinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-12634440089875489342021-01-23T02:33:15.656+00:002021-01-23T02:33:15.656+00:00"Like so many old buildings that look as if t..."Like so many old buildings that look as if they’ve been the same for centuries, this one has been – in architectural terms at least – continuously changing to meet seaside and wider needs and fashion". This is an interesting sentence. I always thing of holiday resorts nostalgically i.e where my brothers and I went in the 1950s and where mum and her sisters went in the 1930s. Even if reality has changed, you don't want seaside memories to change :)Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-5113550901259624082021-01-20T08:07:05.918+00:002021-01-20T08:07:05.918+00:00I don't know if this shot illustrates my "...I don't know if this shot illustrates my "frontage" theory, as observed at Battle in Sussex and at Tewkesbury. The buildings are all to different designs and heights, but by and large they occupy plots of approximately the same size. The building with the bays to the immediate left of the "Castle" might represent a passage between the plots later filled in? Although there is no attempt at uniformity, "town planning", at some stage the ground was carefully marked out and allotted to different occupiers: in other words, somebody decided that this was to be "town" and began to create one from scratch. Elements of each plot, such as the foundations, might be older than 400 years? Compare a building at or next to The Shambles, York, with a bit of Romanesque work absorbed into the later building, or The Lamb, Old Town, Eastbourne, claiming bits from the 12th century. Joseph Biddulph (Publisher)https://www.blogger.com/profile/08655472675410890012noreply@blogger.com