Georgian architecture

It was the most picture postcard house.

It was actually an old Georgian vicarage.

Symmetrical.

I know.

And even the estate agent said, oh, if I had a pound every time someone said they wanted Georgian vicarage, rectory and I was like yes but I do please deliver yes exactly and in fact when we pulled up to this house I got teary and my husband was like we're not getting out the car with you like this because how would we ever negotiate if we absolutely

yeah

Like, I'll take it.

They produced no heir, nor did the next monarch, Mary's sister, Queen Anne, and as a result the crown passed to the next closest relative who came from the house of Hanover in Germany.

This led to four kings named George and over a hundred years of what has become known as the Georgian period.

And nothing typifies this era more than the city of Bath.

This was the most fashionable place to be seen during much of the 18th century, and most members of the royal family spent time here, taking the waters for their health as well as enjoying the social life.

The city is a Georgian creation and adopted the classical style of ancient Rome, which dominated this period.

Great curving terraces were built into the hillside and even included the circus, which was an idealised version of the Colosseum in Rome.

This classical style dominated the new Georgian houses being built, which form many of today's finest country houses.

This was a period of great prosperity, where fortunes were made as the British Empire began to expand around the world.

It was built in 1857.

It's a brick Georgian pile.

I mean, it's not a pile by English standards.

It's not that big, but...

It was also, Georgian was a style of architecture that was out of date by that point in time, so it's an out of fashion one, but it's quite interesting.

It's a whole lot of class stuff bundled up in this.

But in 1857, it was a big grand house.

Basically, it was in one of those, like, classic wedding venues.

It was called The Georgian Mansion.

It was so stunning.

Was it a Georgian mansion?

I'd never seen anything like that.

Yeah, yeah, like a big white Georgian mansion.

I felt like I was in a TV show.

Wow.

It was put in in the, I think, 1920s.

It's not original to the Georgian building.

You know, what's interesting about this shop is even before Greenes, which opened in the 1840s, it had been a shop for a- about 20 years prior to that.

Wow.

I should just tell you that we've a basement here as well, which has been sort of inaccessible to the public for I don't know how long, maybe 100, 150 years, and now we've got a new staircase loca- you know, connecting the shop to the basement.

So we're excited about that because I guess we can bring some sort of more less attractive but more functional stuff to our shop.

So we can use that now for the things that sort of you maybe don't want to display in a Georgian space, like compost and spades.

Absolutely.

And even still, the Shelbourne Hotel sits on St. Stephen's Green.

So Dublin is a, is a Georgian city.

So as you may be aware, we have, we had a long relationship with the British, uh, for, you know, 800 years.

Like give, um, give and take.

... about a little bit.

Um, so until they grow up, and that's what happened.

Dublin is, is essentially is a, is a Georgian...

Or much of Dublin is a, uh, the city center is a, is a Georgian city.

Yeah.

Georgian, mock Georgian type stuff, you know, sort of stately-

Oh, I love Georgian

... sort of English manor type homes.

Yeah.