Inside the beautiful house

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudor_Revival_architecture

Recently, I viewed -Murder On The Links- a Poirot DVD from The Agatha Christy Collection. Some exquisite interiors, exteriors and gardens featured throughout the film set in the 20's'30's.

 Whilst these were not Tudor Revival, but some other style present on the landscape of the 1920's/30's, The Arts and Crafts Movement influenced many buildings of the era.                                

  Tudor Revival architecture came into media prominence this week when Joanne Brown, owner of a 3million pound Tudor style cottage backing onto Great Windsor Park, went missing, suspected murdered, precipitating a crime investigation and search for her body.   Her husband who her friends claim, wanted the house, was arrested.
  She had been running part of the cottage as a B&B to pay legal costs in the couple's bitter ongoing divorce proceedings.  She owned the cottage prior to her marriage to Mr Brown, an airline pilot.
  Whatever the facts of the case, in fiction and in life, people definitely murder for houses, both beautiful and plain.      Is there something about the Tudor style that inspires lust in the male?        Perhaps they see stays and corsets in the architectural wooden exterior binding and internal support beams, the lattice leadlights and tied down thatching.   Yet these were creations of structural necessity in the 1500's when the style was conceived.    Perhaps the analytical male mind just likes to be able to see how a building is constructed by sussing out the outside.     Industrial style buildings with exposed workings, sometimes labelled brutal, perhaps are a post modernist reflection of an identifiably male labelled design desire ascended from Tudor origin. 

   How many people see an enchantingly beautiful house and think- I've got to have that house-  It seems humans are a predatory animal and this is never more obvious than in the quest for housing.