on the other hand, I live in a Victorian terrace built c1900... the exterior walls are lovely blocks of stone. The interior walls are boulders, rubble and cement, skimmed with plaster. They're an absolute PITA to drill into; you either get crumbling rubble that won't hold a rawplug, or an impenetrable boulder that destroys masonry bits. At least with plasterboard there's gonna be joists behind it.
For houses, comfortable, warm ones, dry lined is brilliant. Mine is 50 years old and still gives no problems, no damp, warm, easy to decorate and the interior still looks ok .
A former colleague of mine had a house built right at the end of the Victorian era, he told me, never ever buy one, nightmare to work on, dust dust dust everywhere evertime you did anything structural, hard as stone to work with, just a mare.
Public buildings on the otherhand should be strong, imposing, the victorian, Edwardian era looks are perfect.
Horses for courses, one mans meat....
