Question about this style of English housing.

[GilbertGrape]

I've never been to the UK before, but am alittle intrigued by some of the housing over there. You guys have some fantastic architecture over there(well duh). My question is to do with buildings similar to the one I have posted. I realise these are seperate houses, but are these generally just 1 house, or 3 stories of seperate flats?

Excuse me if this seems like a dumb question.

[Plotloss]

Originally designed as individual houses, however flat conversions are sadly quite popular.

[thehawk]

Mostly converted to 3-4 flats these days, although in places like St Johns Wood there are a few that are still 1 house - with quite large price tags.

[Justayellowbadge]

Short answer is both.

Originally houses, a lot have been converted since.

[MentalSarcasm]

Would have been 2 houses per building (hence 2 front doors) but nowadays you find quite a few split in to flats, or houseshares.

[Benmac]

Probably a bit of both with that sort of property. Likely to have been individual houses originally but many will have been converted into flats, not necessarily all though.

[plasticpig]

Originally one house. Depending upon location (I am guessing London?) a lot of houses like this will have been converted into flats.

[Justayellowbadge]

Strewth.

This may just be the first PH thread in history where everyone agrees.

[spikeyhead]

Holy multiple identical answer thread!!!

[NDA]

As above...

Generally they were a 'London gentleman's residence' - nice town house. But rarely exist now as one house, those look like they could be up to 6 apartments. Bit like the brownstones in New York which were converted in the 1940's.

[Simpo Two]

It would be a nice bit of social history to see them when new - I wonder what the first owners did for a living?

[GilbertGrape]

Thanks, my question has been answered.

To own the whole thing would be freakin awesome in the right location. To be honest, I have absolutely no idea where the houses in this pic are. These kinds of buildings are fascinating to me.

Edited by GilbertGrape on Monday 30th June 11:59

[Glassman]

Notice the estate agent boards? This has to be somewhere like Kilburn or the ghetto end of Ladbroke Grove, both full of architecture.

[NDA]

GilbertGrape said:

Thanks, my question has been answered.

To own the whole thing would be freakin awesome in the right location. To be honest, I have absolutely no idea where the houses in this pic are. These kinds of buildings are fascinating to me.

Looks like West London, but a wild guess.

If you like those, do you like this? Royal Crescent in Bath...

[off_again]

Actually depending on the area, you will find that some will have been one house originally while others will have been two or even three houses. In many areas in Victorian / Edwardian England (typically London for example), it was easier to build a street of houses like this and sell each 'unit' as two houses. This isn't what you might assume would be the typical semi-detached house, but actually they look like a single house. There would be one imposing part and a less obvious more modest part.

Many of these houses were then converted to either a single dwelling or into separate flats. What is the phrase - its house if you have separate entrances on the ground floor; a masionette if you have separate entrances on different floors; a flat if you have separate properties that share the same entrance....

So these days you have a mixture of all of them while sharing the same frontage. There was a major architectural movement that used conformity and symmetry. The frontage then hid the interiors and what purpose the houses had.... these days you end up with streets that look similar and uniform.

[t0ny99]

St Andrew's Square, Surbiton

;)

The clue's in the picture!

Edited by t0ny99 on Monday 30th June 12:12

[ewenm]

There are a couple of townhouses available in Great Pulteney St in Bath at the moment (or were last month). 7 figure sums requested. Most of these houses are converted into flats (or are hotels) though.

Edited by ewenm on Monday 30th June 12:15

[Horse_Apple]

Glassman said:

Notice the estate agent boards? This has to be somewhere like Kilburn or the ghetto end of Ladbroke Grove, both full of architecture.

Looks more like MF Estates from Walthamstow.

[Glassman]

Horse_Apple said:

Glassman said:

Notice the estate agent boards? This has to be somewhere like Kilburn or the ghetto end of Ladbroke Grove, both full of architecture.

Looks more like MF Estates from Walthamstow.

Hoe Street

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Glassman said:

Horse_Apple said:

Glassman said:

Notice the estate agent boards? This has to be somewhere like Kilburn or the ghetto end of Ladbroke Grove, both full of architecture.

Looks more like MF Estates from Walthamstow.

Hoe Street

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