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Victorian styled buildings often induce long stares by those who pass them, but architecture is a vulnerable art; like the landscape, it is subject to meddling by succeeding generations. In this respect, music and literature are more fortunate, for however much abuse or neglect they may receive, the essential integrity of the original will probably survive. This is not at all the case with buildings, and very few houses over a hundred years old have survived unaltered. In many cases, the effects of weather and pollution — together with the additions, alterations and repairs made by several generations of inhabitants — have changed them to such an extent that their builders would have difficulty in recognizing them.

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