Floor construction early 19th century domestic house?

Question

Especially the ground floor.. was it earth of floorboards??

Answer 1

The foundations did not tend to be very deep (this of course does depend on the type of house ie little cottage or castle)and in the little terrace houses then the flooring did tend to be of tiles laid directly onto the floor. Some houses were lucky enough to have timber flooring.

Answer 2

All depends on the type of property and where it was built,,,Beamish open air museum has compacted earth floors in the old miners cottages..but stone would also have been used,,floor boards for the better homes and tiles or stone slabs for the posher ones...

Answer 3

It would be floorboards and very often random sizes. They were not as uniform as our floorboards are today, but sizes of the boards varied in length and width. It was only the very rich who had floorboards of a uniform size in their mansions.