Victorian Home Plans. Victorian house plans are ornate with towers, turrets, verandas and multiple rooms for different functions often in expressively worked wood or stone or a combination of both. Victorian house plans tend to be large and irregular, featuring a multitude of bays and roof elements at varying heights.
Architectural plan books, pattern books, and catalogs became popular during the Victorian era, an age when industrialization made it possible to mass produce building parts and house plans. Victorian home plans features steeply pitched gable rooflines, clapboard and fish scale siding accents, bracketed eaves and decorative fretwork. The largest inventory of house plans Our huge inventory of house blueprints includes simple house plans, luxury home plans, duplex floor plans, garage plans, garages with apartment plans, and more.
Victorian house plans tend to be large and irregular, featuring a multitude of bays and roof elements at varying heights.
Historically, the first Victorian homes marked a popular departure from heavy timber-framed and masonry homes and the advent of industrial building methods.
If you like the Victorian style with signature towers, steep gables and embellished exterior rims, you have found your dream house. Richly detailed both inside and out, this Victorian house plan (exclusive to Architectural Designs) has clipped roof lines at each end and a spacious wrap-around porch. Turned posts and the characteristic decorative trim known as gingerbread were all made possible by industrialized milling methods, and the unique turrets, towers, and bays.