I like this houses thing
I know it's not a meme, obviously, but it's interesting and I want to join in. Cut because some pics are huge.
They varied from a bungalow (a bit bigger than this one), which over looked a racecourse and had an *enormous* garden:
to a castle (pic 1 is the back, pic 2 is the front):
And many variations in between.
We moved Dorset when I was five and started living more normally in picturesque wessex sandstone cottages. They tend to have very small windows, flagstone floors, huge fire places, terrible heating and worse television reception. When I was small, they weren't all that valuable, but with the boom in holiday homes, they have gone from about £90,000 for a three bedroom semi-detached to about £350,000 for the same.
While this might be black and white, the village looks exactle the same today, except I think the postbox has moved.
Having since lived in a 60s cardboard build ex-council flat and a terraced 1930s (I think) house, I live in what used to be a townhouse. In the late Victorian period, 4 and 5 story houses began to spring up all over London. The were big enough to hold a household staff so that the new middle classes could keep up with the Joneses but tall so that they could be built in terraces like their earlier high density northern counterparts. They tended to be built with large sash windows, iron railings and basements for servants quarters/kitchens etc. They generally had small yards and gardens with them, which is still true though I imagine that the gardens would have been a lot bigger when they were first built.
It is rare now to find them as whole houses since the need for all those rooms has reduced and living spaces are now much smaller. The four story house I live in is now four flats and I think that is the same for most of the terrace.
This is a flasher version of a similar terrace, though ours have small front gardens:
I like this idea of talking about houses, because I think architecture is quite amazing. It always surprises me when I go abroad and I cannot date any of the architecture at all, either because the styles are so different, or because they built in the same way for such a long time and therefore all the building are rather uniform. One of my favourite things about London is that you can have a tiny, 400yr old cottage sandwiched between Victorian terraces and opposite an estate comprised of flat blocks from every decade since the slum clearances.
They varied from a bungalow (a bit bigger than this one), which over looked a racecourse and had an *enormous* garden:
to a castle (pic 1 is the back, pic 2 is the front):
And many variations in between.
We moved Dorset when I was five and started living more normally in picturesque wessex sandstone cottages. They tend to have very small windows, flagstone floors, huge fire places, terrible heating and worse television reception. When I was small, they weren't all that valuable, but with the boom in holiday homes, they have gone from about £90,000 for a three bedroom semi-detached to about £350,000 for the same.
While this might be black and white, the village looks exactle the same today, except I think the postbox has moved.
Having since lived in a 60s cardboard build ex-council flat and a terraced 1930s (I think) house, I live in what used to be a townhouse. In the late Victorian period, 4 and 5 story houses began to spring up all over London. The were big enough to hold a household staff so that the new middle classes could keep up with the Joneses but tall so that they could be built in terraces like their earlier high density northern counterparts. They tended to be built with large sash windows, iron railings and basements for servants quarters/kitchens etc. They generally had small yards and gardens with them, which is still true though I imagine that the gardens would have been a lot bigger when they were first built.
It is rare now to find them as whole houses since the need for all those rooms has reduced and living spaces are now much smaller. The four story house I live in is now four flats and I think that is the same for most of the terrace.
This is a flasher version of a similar terrace, though ours have small front gardens:
I like this idea of talking about houses, because I think architecture is quite amazing. It always surprises me when I go abroad and I cannot date any of the architecture at all, either because the styles are so different, or because they built in the same way for such a long time and therefore all the building are rather uniform. One of my favourite things about London is that you can have a tiny, 400yr old cottage sandwiched between Victorian terraces and opposite an estate comprised of flat blocks from every decade since the slum clearances.