Free pocket guide ยท Arch. Cristina Capri
Epsom Style Spotter
How to read a house in thirty seconds, from the footpath
Villa, Arts and Crafts, bungalow, Spanish Mission: Epsom tells the whole story within a few streets. This two-page guide gives you the clues an architect looks for, so you can tell them apart at a glance.
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Inside the guide
Three questions
The three questions I ask of every house: about symmetry, the roof, and its materials.
Six styles
From the Victorian villa to the edge of modernism, with a real Epsom example for each.
Reading the walls
Basalt or scoria, dry-stone or mortared: what Epsom's lava walls are telling you.
Want the full story?
Hidden in the Streets is the complete architecture and heritage walk through Epsom: the volcanic ground, the estates, the important houses, and the real stories of the people who lived in them.