DESIGN DETAILS STAIRCASES

One of the things that most often draws us to a period property is a beautifully designed staircase. It’s an architectural element that brings so much joy, holds such significance in heritage terms, and helps us to unravel the passage of time to better understand our homes.

Given their function, staircases tend to form an integral part of a building’s plan form or structure. Their position and design evolved over time in line with fashions and needs of the day, so they provide key evidence in determining the age of a building. Staircases can also help us to untangle the sequence of development of our more complex period homes, illustrating how people lived and worked in them. In a similar vein, they are fantastic heralds of stylistic fancies and denote differences in status, even within a