An Attraction

The British landscape archaeologist Richard Muir said about the English villages in his book 'The Villages of England that;

'The rough masons, carpenters and home-makers of village England may seldom have given a thought to the aesthetic aspects of their creations and yet, in village after village, they produced a prettiness in which romance and sentiment could become deeply rooted. In stark contrast, the highly qualified architects, developers and planners of the modern age seem hardly ever to be able to produce additions to villages which do other than scar the face of the settlement.'

I wouldn't say new architecture has no attraction, but if many people think old  houses in old villages are rustic and traditional, it might be true.