mock-Tudor

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1. architectureTudor revival; in the style of Tudor architecture (of buildings after the Tudor period, especially those built in the 19th or 20th century).

   [neighborhoods] like Gants Hill, with mock-Tudor houses and gardens and garages, taking with them their skills, cash and aspirations.

   1843, “A dynamic mayor’s plans for his borough may be good for Newham, less so for London”, in The Economist, volume 404, page 52

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   ANGELA:[…] I like those old Tudor houses round here. LAURENCE: No, Angela: Mock-Tudor. ANGELA: Are they? LAURENCE: Oh, yes. There are some real Tudor properties in Hadley Village itself. But the ones you’re thinking of are Mock-Tudor.

   1982, Mike Leigh, Abigail’s Party, page 72

   When one walks around mock-Tudor or Neo-Georgian housing estates, the natural tendency is to think not of Elizabeth and George, but of the outlook and aspirations of the people who have chosen to live there.

   1990, Paul Greenhalgh, “Introduction”, in Modernism in Design, page 20

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   If you noticed a For Sale board outside a semi-detached piece of mock-Tudor with peeling paint and a few overgrown roses round the door, that's it.

   1974, Anne Betteridge, A Time of Their Lives

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   In the suburb where I lived the roads and cul-de-sacs and crescents had faked-up names purporting to evoke a bucolic and pastoral idyll of the past, the vanished farmland of Middlesex that had been paved over to make way for these meek estates of mock-Tudor, names like Fairmead and Bullscroft which seemed to me merely sentimental.

   1999, Nicholas Royle, The Time Out Book of Paris Short Stories, Time Out Guides

   But despite the suburban prevalence of mock-Tudor, seemingly appealing to nostalgia for an imagined 'Merrie Olde England', reappraisal of these buildings since the late-twentieth century has recognised that some architects of the period operated beyond this superficiality by adopting more authentic or innovative approaches to reviving the past.

   2026 August 28, Peter N. Lindfield, Dan Talkes, Revivalism and Architecture: Referencing and Reworking History, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN