{"id":27079,"date":"2021-04-11T22:16:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T21:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=27079"},"modified":"2021-04-11T22:16:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T21:16:39","slug":"blocked-up-abingdon-windows-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=27079","title":{"rendered":"Blocked up Abingdon windows &#8211; part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Window Tax was a tax on the value of a property. The tax could be assessed without intruding on the house owner&#8217;s privacy by going inside. <\/p>\n<p>As a consequence of the tax, people blocked up windows, and built houses with fewer windows. It was repealed in 1851. (Fewer windows were a health and safety problem.)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21040901.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe blocked up Abingdon windows, pictured here, were probably not blocked up to avoid the Window Tax, unless you know better.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21040902.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nIt could be that internal alterations made the windows no longer necessary.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21040903.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nIt could be that the space inside is being used for storage or that privacy is needed.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21040904.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThey could be an architectural feature &#8211; for classical symmetry<\/p>\n<p>If you know buildings, in Abingdon, where windows are blocked up to avoid the Window Tax then I will do a part 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Window Tax was a tax on the value of a property. The tax could be assessed without intruding on the house owner&#8217;s privacy by going inside. As a consequence of the tax, people blocked up windows, and built houses with fewer windows. It was repealed in 1851. (Fewer windows were a health and safety [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archictecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}