Edwardian houses - the essential guide
From period features to finding the right location, find out everything you need to know about Edwardian houses
Period features
- Edwardian houses - the essential guide
- Period features
- Locations
- Buying an Edwardian house
- Retaining period features
Indoor features
Edwardian homes tend to have fewer but larger, lighter rooms, including a purpose-built bathroom. Features include a generous hallway, often with a carpet of encaustic tiles, and wide staircase.
Parquet flooring is frequently underfoot and, on the walls, mouldings such as dado rails and plate rails, picture rails and architraves.
Fixtures can include quirky Arts & Crafts-style fitted furniture such as 'cosy corners': panelled alcoves including bookshelves and cushioned benches beside the fireplace.
External features
Edwardian builders favoured semi-detached two-storey houses. Plain red brickwork was adorned with flourishes such as painted wooden balconies and verandas, and porches were given fancy tiling or terracotta details.
Chosen by House to home
Strictly speaking, a building completed after the death of Queen Victoria, in 1901, and before the death of her successor, Edward VII, in 1910m is Edwardian
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