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  It's quite funny that we find this sort of thing awful isn't it? I can't say I like it, but surely it's better than magnolia?
  
  Much of the architectural language of the Georgians and subsequently the Victorians, was an interpretation of classical examples.
  
  Everybody forgets that Greek temples were all quite garish in their colour schemes and not the exposed stone that we see now (or on a grand tour).
  
  The whole process of conservation is a funny old thing, maintaining individual nature, yet suppressing it at the same time. I think that there are bigger crimes - faux sash windows in uPVC with stuck on victorian horns being one. For some reason planners see this sort of embellishment as 'tasteful'. I can never help but think that our arbiters of taste don't quite get it! (always look at their shoes).

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