Look inside a Georgian townhouse

Sharon Lathan

Sharon Lathan is the best-selling author of The Darcy Saga, a ten-volume sequel series to Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice.

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Teresa Snipes

Thank you! This gives a much better visual of what I read. I loved your actual pictures of the places in your books from your blog. I was on there for several hours enjoying walking through each book and the pictures of the places you had in your mind as you wrote. What a gift to give to us readers!

I’m reminded of the way J.R.R. Tolkien made up all the languages of his cultures and the maps of his locations before he ever actually began to write his incredible books. That’s devotion to your craft and it’s appreciated.

Blessings,
Teresa

cindie snyder

What a beautiful doll house! Those Victorian homes are lovely. So intricate and big with lots of floors.

Glynis

I would have absolutely loved that dolls house! So intricate. Those houses look lovely (in fact they are only missing bathrooms 🙂 )
I’ve seen this post before but I always enjoy seeing it again so thank you.

Karana

Gives me a much better mental picture when reading. I always could not visualize being brought into a house then taken upstairs to a drawing room. Thanks.

Donna Krug

I loved this. Climbing all those stairs would sure be tiring.

Donna Krug

Yes, indeed. I often wondered if folks got plump from all the multi-course dinners in the evening. Maybe climbing the stairs helped keep weight down. Whoa to anyone with leg or foot problems. What a lot of rooms! Thank you for sharing.

Joana Starnes

Fabulous post, thanks so much! I kept going back to Berkeley Square, but the frontage is all I’ve ever seen. It’s great to understand a bit more about what’s actually behind it. It’s a bit depressing to see the 1950s (or 70s) buildings that stand where the gardens of Devonshire House or Lansdowne House used to be, or a Pret instead of Gunter’s but hey, such is progress. Have you seen the Lansdowne dining room at the Met?

Carol Perrin

Fantastic post. Love the insider views. Lots ‘s steps in some of those places.

Theresa Meyers

Fantastic post and I appreciate the suggestion of additional sources to review. So much fantastic information!

Diana Oaks

Very cool, Sharon! Loved this!

Danielle C

Thank you so much for this post! It was nice to “see” more of a typical regency townhouse and to also see the floor plans.

Rose Fairbanks

I loved this post! I looked at a lot of floor plans before describing Darcy’s townhouse in one of my stories (because the story ended once they got to Pemberley) so it was neat to see more! Something else few people know/recall is that rich families were essentially neighborhood developers and owned every house on the square that others leased. In my story I had Darcy own the townhouse outright but it be smaller and from a maternal grandmother (the homes from that era were smaller, and they had not remodeled as the family soon leased it out and rented something larger). For this particular Darcy, I wanted him to have a legacy to be proud of (owning the townhouse) even if it wasn’t the most opulent (a smaller house). Fun post!

Jennifer Joy

This is fantastic! I just finished the final proof of my novel today (YAY!!!!!), but now I think I’m going to change a family scene from the sitting room to the morning room. The sitting room gets way too much attention anyway! Thank you for this!

Elizabeth Adams

So cool! Thanks for such an interesting post!

lynn1971

Thank you, Sharon. Very interesting and puts you right in the crowded, busy city. I can almost hear the horses and carriages driving by. Makes you understand why they loved their lush country estates.

barbsilkstone

Sharon, I just noticed “Deed” Room in the basement. Do you know what that was used for? Thanks!

barbsilkstone

Thank you. That was very informative.

barbsilkstone

Sharon, Thank you! This is a wonderful post. Not only is it very informative but it brings back all my dollhouse memories. Most enjoyable!

Brenda Webb

I love this! So informative and I can’t help but believe Mr. Darcy’s house was more on the line of Lansdowne! Otherwise all my stories would not make sense. heh heh

nancy

They seem to be short on bedrooms. Where would guests or children sleep? I like imaginary houses better for they can expand to hold a family of ten as well as all the needed servants with rooms left over for guests.
I do wish I could have a large replica of a regency House.

Elizabeth Ann West

While not exactly Regency England, there are surviving town homes in Charleston, SC built in the same time frame, in the Georgian style, called Rainbow Row. The houses are SO tall, 4 or 5 stories, easy! Just the scale of them is intimidating on the street! But the layouts are similar and many still have the original carriage houses.

Wendy Roberts

Interesting. I wonder why the houses were so boxy compared with the open floor plans of today.

DoAm

Thank you for sharing this with your Readers. It´s absolutely stunning and I always love to read about all aspects of daily life which you provide in abundance.

Jerry T

Many thanks for bringing Mr. Darcy’s townhouse to life. 🙂

Glynis

I just love things like this. So much the best part of history is the fashions homes and customs of the times rather than dates and politics. Thanks for sharing this I will definitely be checking it out again on my pc as it is a bit too small on my phone!!

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