In Bowen’s fiction, domestic architecture shapes the character and modus vivendi of those it houses. While Bowen admired the austerity of eighteenth-century architecture, exemplified in Bowen’s Court, her family’s Big House in County Cork, she admitted to a preference for the fanciful villas of the Kentish seaside where she lived as a child with her beloved mother. This chapter examines her ambivalence about the architectural styles that supplanted the august simplicity of Georgian design. Ambivalent, too, is her attitude to the housing estates that pullulated in the English suburbs. Although she deplores the desecration of tradition, she is also exhilarated by the ferment of modernisation. The chapter concludes with Bowen’s haunted houses, which engender their own inhabitants, whether living or undead.