mock-Tudor

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.

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