Editing Regency architecture (section)

==Houses==
Many buildings of the Regency style have a white painted [[stucco]] façade and an entryway to the main front door (usually coloured black) which is framed by two columns. In town centres the dominance of the [[Terrace house|terraced house]] continued, and [[Crescent (architecture)|crescents]] were especially popular.  Elegant [[wrought iron]] [[balconies]] and bow windows came into [[fashion]] as part of this style.  Further out of town the suburban "villa" detached house was popular in a range of sizes. Whereas most earlier Georgian housing for the middle classes had little ornament, the Regency period brought modest architectural pretensions to a much wider range of buildings, in a relaxed and confident application of the classical tradition as filtered through [[Palladianism]].

For large [[English country house|country houses]] a range of [[picturesque]] styles were available, and the [[Gothic Revival]] was gathering strength, with many architects able to turn to different styles as their patron required. [[Ashridge]] (to 1817), [[Belvoir Castle]] and [[Fonthill Abbey]] (to 1813, now demolished), were all by [[James Wyatt]], whose late career specialized in extravagant Gothic houses. [[Sezincote House]] (1805), designed by [[Samuel Pepys Cockerell]], is a [[Indo-Saracenic Revival architecture|Neo-Mughal]] country house for a "[[nabob]]" returned from [[British India]].<ref>Norwich, 248–249</ref>  [[Brighton Pavilion]] (to 1822) by [[John Nash (architect)|John Nash]], the seaside home of the Prince Regent, is Indian on the exterior, but the interiors include attempts at a Chinese style by [[Frederick Crace]].<ref>Norwich, 631</ref>