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History Coursework Question 1. When we date buildings we look at the specific features that they have; such things like the brick or stonework, the doors, windows and chimneys. We try to find out what sort of person lived there and in which century it was built in. A typical 18th Century house would have been very symmetrical, it would have been box shaped, the balustrades would sometimes hide the roofline. It would have been built …

…work they might have done, as the site visit could not tell me this. It could not give me a very accurate date to the time the houses were built either it could only tell me a rough estimated century. So for this I had to work this out from the map. These gave me a more precise date, they weren't perfect but they were the closest I could get. To look at the pictures