Past Homes

A selection of images of homes showing both interiors and exteriors. Check out our Teaching Activity Past Homes:Interiors

Add to My Favourites Copyright English Heritage.NMR Sutton Street, Sheffield, South Yorkshire These terraced houses in Sutton Street were built for weavers working from home. The garretted top-shop, with its long windows, provided a well lit area for a handloom. Textiles were brought in from other clothiers to be finished in these buildings. The lower floors were family dwellings.	Add to My Favourites Reproduced by permission of English Heritage.NMR The Albany, Piccadilly, Greater London Interior of a luxurious Victorian drawing room, looking towards a bedroom.
Add to My Favourites Reproduced by permission of English Heritage.NMR 12 Brunswick Square, Hove, East Sussex Interior view in the bedroom showing the fireplace and bedstead	Add to My Favourites Reproduced by permission of English Heritage.NMR Family Group, Buckinghamshire A view of a family standing outside their home.
Add to My Favourites Reproduced by permission of English Heritage.NMR Drawing Room at Foots Cray Place, Bexley, London The Drawing Room at Foots Cray Place in Bexley. It was built in circa 1756 and burnt down in 1950. The furnishings seen here are typical of the late 19th century.	Add to My Favourites Reproduced by permission of English Heritage.NMR New College, Oxford, Oxfordshire Cooks at work in the college kitchens. The men are preparing joints of meat and a spit of chickens is leaning against the wall, ready to be roasted.
Add to My Favourites Reproduced by permission of English Heritage.NMR Gaunt House, Standlake, Oxfordshire The kitchen interior of the mostly 17th century moated house that was fortified and defended during the civil war.	Add to My Favourites Reproduced by permission of English Heritage.NMR Dining Room, Cornwall An interior view of a dining room.
Add to My Favourites Reproduced by permission of English Heritage.NMR North Road, Highgate, London A typical view of workers' houses from the early 20th century in north London. The doors to the houses opened onto communal areas and so people used window boxes to give their homes a garden and some individuality.	Add to My Favourites Reproduced by permission of English Heritage.NMR Bathroom in the Hotel Metropole, Westminster, London The ensuite bathroom in room 307A contains a bath with shower attached.
Add to My Favourites English Heritage.NMR Great Dixter, Northiam, East Sussex An interior view showing the kitchen from the south-east.	Add to My Favourites Reproduced by permission of English Heritage.NMR Yeoman's House, Bignor, West Sussex The Yeoman's House dates is a 15th-century thatched and timber-framed cottage with jettied overhangs. The central section, which was originally a two-storey hall is filled in with brick in a 'herringbone' pattern. Yeomen owned a small amount of land.
Add to My Favourites Copyright Crown copyright.NMR Domestic interior, Leicester, Leicestershire An interior view of a house in Leicester showing the bedroom with bed and furniture, decorated in a 1930s style.	Add to My Favourites Copyright Crown copyright.NMR Domestic interior, Leicester, Leicestershire An interior view of a house in Leicester showing the dining room which is decorated in a 1930s style.
Add to My Favourites Copyright Crown copyright.NMR Terraced housing, Bowling Green, Warwick, Warwickshire Children pose for the photographer in a court behind some run-down terraced housing in Bowling Green, Warwick. A pram has been left outside one house while washing hangs out to dry.	Add to My Favourites Copyright Crown copyright.NMR Kitchen in a Howard House, Swindon, Wiltshire Prefabricated housing was made to 11 designs between 1944 and 1948 as part of the Temporary Housing Programme to relieve the post war housing shortage. This picture from 1947 shows the kitchen in one of the houses in Swindon. Some of the housing proved not to be particularly temporary!
Add to My Favourites English Heritage.NMR Kitchen of a house in Watlington Park, Watlington, Oxfordshire The kitchen and dining area in a modern house in Watlington Park.	Add to My Favourites English Heritage.NMR Penfound Manor, Poundstock, Cornwall A granite fireplace in Penfound Manor. The house is built around the core of a medieval hall, with Tudor and 17th-century additions.
Add to My Favourites Crown copyright.NMR Kitchen, Newclose Farm, Burnaston, Etwall, Derbyshire The farmhouse at Newclose Farm probably dates from the 17th century. The picture shows the kitchen in 1990, but this has probably changed little for decades. Note the size of the range compared to the more modern cooker.