The phrase you want about the Window Tax is 'Daylight robbery' - still in use in the UK. We have some bricked up windows on Georgian houses in the locality. Also local was a great Georgian Mansion, extended about 1740ish and demolished 1853 that was said to have had a window for each week of the year. The demolition sale did indeed list 52 windows! So the owners must have been very wealthy indeed. Thanks for the tip on what the window count implies for this lost house.
The phrase you want about the Window Tax is 'Daylight robbery' - still in use in the UK. We have some bricked up windows on Georgian houses in the locality. Also local was a great Georgian Mansion, extended about 1740ish and demolished 1853 that was said to have had a window for each week of the year. The demolition sale did indeed list 52 windows! So the owners must have been very wealthy indeed. Thanks for the tip on what the window count implies for this lost house.
A window for each week of the year! Collins would have been suitably impressed. Thanks for sharing this fun tidbit!
This was a fun episode!!!
Thanks for listening!