They usually lived in mansions.
The old yeoman class was disappearing due to their selling their
land to larger landowners. Farming on a large scale was more
productive.
The next class were the "middling sort". In this class were
merchants, lawyers, substantial tenant farmers, smaller
freeholders, millers, innkeepers, in town traders, shopkeepers
(who now kept their wares inside and lived on the second floor),
middlemen, clothiers, ironmongers, goldsmiths, grocers, linen
drapers, apothecaries, school masters, clerks and civil servants,
and customs and excise men. The town people lived in town houses
of two stories plus an attic.
The last class were the manual workers. These were wage earners or
independent craftsmen, farriers, rural smiths (who shod horses and
made stair rails, window-bars, torch extinguishers, lamp irons,
bells, bolts, hinges, locks, and fire-grates), sawyers,
carpenters, joiners, wheelwrights, nail makers, brick makers,
plumbers (made lead cisterns, kitchen sinks, rain-water heads,
drain pipes and lead flats for houses and ornaments), thatchers,
spinners (silk, flax, hemp, wool, hair), dyers, wool combers,
weavers, shoemakers, hat makers, belt and buckle makers,
dressmakers, milliners (hats, caps, bonnets, cloaks, hoods,
muffs), feather workers, button makers, lace makers, steel pin
makers, brewers, cutlery makers, soap makers, candle makers (made
from beeswax, fallow, mutton-fat, or beef-drippings), comb makers,
barber/hairdressers (shaved, cut hair, made wigs and braids, and
let blood), curriers, leather workers, carpet weavers, paper
makers, tin-plate makers, printers, enamel workers, braziers and
coppersmiths (made kettles, saucepans, canisters, milk pails,
lanterns, candle boxes, candle sticks, and lamp lighters), basket
makers, jewelers (made rings, perfumes, match boxes, buckles, and
tops of canes), watch and clock makers, type founders, letter
cutters, trunk and chest makers, cabinet makers, saddlers, coach
body builders, coach carriage makers, shipwrights, rope makers,
and sail makers.
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