mock-Tudor

English

mock-Tudor buildings in Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Adjective

mock-Tudor (comparative more mock-Tudor, superlative most mock-Tudor)

1. (architecture) Tudor revival; in the style of Tudor architecture (of buildings after the Tudor period, especially those built in the 19th or 20th century).
   • 1843, “A dynamic mayor’s plans for his borough may be good for Newham, less so for London”, in The Economist, volume 404, page 52:

     [neighborhoods] like Gants Hill, with mock-Tudor houses and gardens and garages, taking with them their skills, cash and aspirations.

   • 1982, Mike Leigh, Abigail’s Party, page 72:

     ANGELA: […] I like those old Tudor houses round here.
     LAURENCE: No, Angela: Mock-Tudor.
     ANGELA: Are they?
     LAURENCE: Oh, yes. There are some real Tudor properties in Hadley Village itself. But the ones you’re thinking of are Mock-Tudor.

   • 1990, Paul Greenhalgh, “Introduction”, in Modernism in Design, page 20:

     When one walks around mock-Tudor or Neo-Georgian housing estates, the natural tendency is to think not of Elizabeth and George, but of the outlook and aspirations of the people who have chosen to live there.

See also

• mock Tudor (noun)
• Tudorbethan
• Jacobethan
• pseudo-Tudo