Posted by Elizabeth on August 13, 2007 at 18:29:24 from 24.22.115.46 user Elizabeth.
In Reply to: Re: Beckfoot- building style posted by CWinifred on August 12, 2007 at 02:59:00:
I would second Georgian, because of the hall down the middle of the house both up- and downstairs. I also think that downstairs hallway is what AR calls the "passageway" another label which has Ed confused. It was not uncommon for Georgian houses to have a very formal layout, in which the kitchen does not directly adjoin the dining room, and the serving people would carry trays and dishes through the kitchen door into the hallway and then into the dining room. And perhaps even down the hallway several doors from the kitchen, not directly across. Usually with a long hallway straight through the house, each room could be closed off from that hall--the source of cold drafts in winter--and some could be opened to each other along the length of the house. Drawing room might lead into dining room without family or guests needing to go through the hallway. So the hallway would have been more the territory of the servants then.