Wherever you happen to be – London, Bath or Bristol, Edinburgh or Dublin – there is no mistaking Georgian housing (photo shows a late Georgian terrace c1790). Uniformity, symmetry and a careful attention to proportion both in the overall arrangement and in the detail characterised eighteenth century domestic architecture. We also describe the style today as ‘classical’. It was inspired by the architecture of ancient Greece and Rome that had been rediscovered during the Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and re-codified by Andrea Palladio (1509-80) in Italy in the 1570s; and then re-interpreted again for the Georgian builder by eighteenth century British architects and writers such as William Chambers and Isaac Ware. Palladian taste promoted order and uniformity...as Ware stated, ‘There ought to be...a uniformity of all the parts first to the whole building and next to each other’.