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Outside blinds and shutters

The shutters on the outside of a Georgian house were normally closed down during bad weather to protect the windows which were glazed with crown glass.  This glass was very fragile. We read in one of Charlotte’s letters that 66 panes of glass were broken in the house during a freak storm when the shutters were not employed.  Other houses in the area lost even more glass.


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  • Storm shutters
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The Bevan Family Letters website is a micro-site of The Regency Town House website. The Town House is a grade 1 Listed terraced home of the mid-1820s being developed as a heritage centre and museum to focus on the architecture and social history of Brighton & Hove between the 1780s and 1840s. For further information about the Town House project see http://www.rth.org.uk.