#windowtax
LightNews LightNews
thisismyglasgow.bsky.social
The Georgian neo-Classical Aikenhead House in King's Park in Glasgow. If you look carefully at the windows at the left hand end, you'll see they're actually fake, with the mullions and transoms painted on stone.

Cont./

#glasgow #kingspark #architecture #windowtax #architecturephotography
April 6, 2025 at 8:19 AM
thisismyglasgow.bsky.social
The Georgian neo-Classical Aikenhead House in King's Park in Glasgow. If you look carefully at the windows at the left hand end, you'll see they're actually fake, with the mullions and transoms painted on stone.

Cont./

#glasgow #kingspark #architecture #windowtax #architecturephotography
December 4, 2025 at 9:22 AM
wisdompedlars.bsky.social
WINDOW TAX 1696 Original COIN CLIPPING ACT William PARLIAMENT HOUSE RECOINAGE

#17thcentury #book #act #history #government #politics #tax #windowtax #coinage #money #economy #Britain #parliament #bookauction
ohixkp.s.gy/aR90PN
September 25, 2026 at 12:39 PM
thisismyglasgow.bsky.social
This wing was added in 1823, some 75 years after the introduction of a window tax in Scotland, so it's unlikely they were originally designed as functional windows that were then sealed up.

Cont./

#glasgow #kingspark #architecture #windowtax #architecturephotography
December 4, 2025 at 9:22 AM
lesuperhomard.bsky.social
They are here !
Pre-orders:
Digital: bfan.link/mfsh-windowtax
Bandcamp: bit.ly/mfsh-windowt...
Talitres: bit.ly/mfsh-windowt...
April 10, 2026 at 10:49 AM
thisismyglasgow.bsky.social
This wing was added in 1823, some 75 years after the introduction of a window tax in Scotland, so it's unlikely they were originally designed as functional windows that were then sealed up.

Cont./

#glasgow #kingspark #architecture #windowtax #architecturephotography #glasgowhistory
April 6, 2025 at 8:19 AM
antiprofessor.bsky.social
Save on the hated #WindowTax why not build subterranean bedrooms?
siegman.biz Patrick Siegman @siegman.biz · Aug 29
What share of architecture programs require students to pass an economics class to graduate?

I ask because this story profiles the architect who just persuaded the ICC to ban windowless bedrooms in its model building code. It offers zero consideration of how this will affect building costs or rents
www.archpaper.com
August 31, 2026 at 1:52 PM
jacquelinecable.bsky.social
No doubt the reform twunts would add a #windowtax
April 1, 2026 at 12:10 AM
jamescrocks.com
Yep! Sounds like the usual crap people (even some on my side) will believe.

#windowtax #gullibility
fullfact.org Full Fact @fullfact.org · May 27
Social media posts are claiming a monthly window tax of £3.70 per window per house will be introduced from August.

But we could find no evidence of any such tax being announced, and the Treasury has said the claim is fake.
No evidence Rachel Reeves is introducing a ‘window tax’ – Full Fact
The Treasury has said claims on social media that the Chancellor is set to introduce a window tax on privately owned homes are “misinformation”.
buff.ly
May 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
sempaiscuba.bsky.social
31 December 1695: The act of Parliament that introduced the deeply unpopular Window #Tax received Royal Assent. #History #Taxation #WindowTax
December 31, 2024 at 11:27 AM
austenmicrocosm.bsky.social
Having visited many more rooms than could be supposed to be of any other use than to contribute to the window-tax, and find employment for housemaids, 'Now,' said Mrs Rushworth, 'we are coming to the chapel.'
#JaneAusten #MansfieldPark
Jane Austen
#WindowTax

youtube.com/shorts/7DCOM...
The window tax #history #britishhistory #londonhistory
YouTube video by Alice Loxton
youtube.com
January 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
sempaiscuba.bsky.social
31 December 1695: The act of Parliament that introduced the deeply unpopular window #tax received Royal Assent. #History #Taxation #WindowTax
December 31, 2025 at 11:52 AM