English Tudor Siding

You can t ignore the architecture.

English tudor siding.

Revive your english tudor home with a new exterior color scheme. Because a tudor s quaint architectural features often contain a combination of stone clapboard. Cream colored trim highlights windows and other exterior features against the red brick. I have bought an old 1979 english tudor home.

We replaced it with new james hardie stucco panels made of fiber cement for a durable and clean finish. Once you decide to add vinyl siding to a tudor style home you forever alter the way the house looks on the outside. These exposed boards are a nod to original 16 th century building practices that made use of heavy timbers to support the house. Exterior colors for english tudors.

The panels are james hardie s arctic white with. A gothic limestone arch above the entry copper gutters and board and batten siding are distinguishing characteristics. And it looks like it s textured plywood with raised 1 2 inch strips on it. The english cottage style was born of the tudor style so the two share many architectural details.

Tudor style architecture looks like it was created from the pages of a romantic storybook intertwining medieval charm with a quaint english country manor. While the design is reminiscent of the english tudor period of 1485 1603 the style didn t appear in the u s. The classic timber frame look is easily achieved with textured siding materials. Until the late 19th century.

I ve seen tudor houses where the owners have tried to minimise the tudor details by painting the trim and the siding the same colour. Siding trim one of the hallmarks of a tudor home is the decorative half timbering often seen on the front of the home. For this renovation project we removed all of the old stucco siding and trim. What happens is that it looks like the painter was lazy.

It s about 2 700 square feet. It will no longer have that traditional tudor style and you won t be able to go back to the old look because once you install the plywood or osb as well as the waterproofing for the vinyl siding you will have punctured the walls with numerous nail and screw holes. This home s classic styling is part tudor and part english country. Stucco siding on an english cottage a sloping slate roof massive chimney dominating one side stonework decorative half timbering and stucco are the characteristics of an english cottage or cotswold cottage.

Today these touches are entirely ornamental. And it has got brick on the first floor and the upper floor has the english tudor style but it s been made out of plywood.