Ever noticed this? 👀

"Got a license for that daylight coming into your house?"

Do you agree?

Building is like that by design, not to mitigate the window tax. The building is too young.

I spent the summers of 1971 and 1972 in Turkey. Many of the houses there appeared to be unfinished. There were often preparatory works for an additional story. We were told it was because property taxes were only payable if a house was complete. I don’t know if this was true? 🤷🏼‍♂️

A lot of these were built that way, foir design & symmetry

@militaryhistori Not sure that’s a reason in more modern buildings, with these it was just a case that a window wasn’t needed there but the architect wanted to retain the building lines and form so retained the reveal and lintel detail of these windows

This a common sight in the uk, but those particular buildings are far too young, it’s either for symmetry or the building use/interior design was changed.

A lot of the buildings though seem like they were built in 1800’s and then bricked up 🤔

We had a Georgian townhouse which had 'blank windows' these were where the staircase was and were only there to make the front of the house look symetrical

Its where the expression 'robbing the living daylights' came from @history_alice

Daylight robbery!