{"id":265199,"date":"2025-11-16T00:46:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T00:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/265199\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T00:46:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T00:46:15","slug":"the-houses-that-england-built","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/265199\/","title":{"rendered":"The houses that England built"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"text\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Paragraph font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-3048 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500605 _col-c-grey_600 _select-auto _ws-normal\">Princelet Street apart, Cruickshank\u2019s choices include five singular houses built for rich clients,\u00a0and two examples of working-class housing. He treads cautiously around the slave trade-based wealth with which the Heywood family built a theatrical house-cum-bank in Liverpool in 1798-1800, trying to reconcile his appreciation of the architecture with the atrocities behind it. He describes the streets of two-up, two-down \u201cbye-law\u201d houses built in Toxteth, Liverpool, from the 1860s to the 1890s and the pioneer council\u00a0housing of the Boundary Estate of 1890-1900, about half a mile to the north of Princelet Street.\u00a0He tells how the latter, beautifully planned and designed though it was, did nothing for the destitute dwellers of slums formerly\u00a0on the site, evicted when \ufeffhouses were demolished to make way for the estate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Princelet Street apart, Cruickshank\u2019s choices include five singular houses built for rich clients,\u00a0and two examples of working-class housing.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6510,6225,6485,6486,457,5343,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-265199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-architecture","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-books","13":"tag-culture","14":"tag-design","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}