Is this size house average or small?

I don’t know, when we had our flat it was just under 1400 square feet and it had 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a big kitchen diner and a good size living room. I can’t really imagine that space having 3 bedrooms, 2 living rooms, dining room, stairs etc.so I think that’s warped my perception! Having said that I don’t know what the average size house is in England? Compared to some countries we seem quite squashed.

Small and not suitable for a family?! My house is 1,400 sm and is a fairly large property (huge hallway, two large reception rooms, 1 smaller dining room, decent-sized kitchen, decent-sized bathroom - double walk in shower and separate bath - two huge bedrooms and one smaller double bedroom). I’m not actually sure if you’re for real with this comment?! Our house is larger than average for our area (I live on a road with a mixture of semi and detached and all are a similar size on our side but elsewhere houses are smaller), but we came from a house just over 1,000 sm and managed fine as a family of four in that!

It's small and not suitable for a family but seems to be the norm in the UK.

I would assume it’s average? Depends on layout too. My house is large but we have a lot of wasted space in the hall and landing which makes them difficult to heat. I would design it differently next time.

I think it depends what you're used to. Our current 1200 square foot house seemed enormous when we moved in but we had come from a tiny two up, two down terrace. Thirty years later we use all of it and it feels right. Viewing smaller houses feel small.
Also it depends how much is usable space. We've viewed house where the square footage included hallways, inside cupboards, understair areas and garages. All useful but not living space.

I'm shocked that people think 150sqm is small.

I grow up in detached house (did have extras like garage and loads of outside space/gardens that size and I consider it huge compared to my 75sqm 450k 3 bed 1930s house.

I agree layout has a huge impact, town houses always feel small to me even if they are much bigger than my house.

My 4 bed is 1400sq ft and definitely not small - 4 double bedrooms (2 are small doubles but not box rooms. We have a utility, kitchen, dining room, living room and snug/study. It’s a new build style (20 years old though) and the bigger of the three 4 bed option on the development. Maybe it depends on layout. We bought the house I loved how it flowed.

I think for a 4 bed would make it small, for 3 bed about average.

edit- I’ve just scrolled up and seen people saying it’s large so I guess it’s area dependent
and shape of house dependent.

It must vary a lot on area, here the ex council properties are bigger than the privately built houses (for a 3 bed). Usually 3 double bedrooms plus upstairs bathroom and a downstairs toilet. Although maybe it just depends when they're built. Ours are 1940s and the private estate homes are 60s and later. Newer council houses are probably smaller? The ones here are nice houses whereas I see some that look awful with tiny windows in weird places. Maybe they're the tiny ones

That's incredibly small though. I currently live in a 63m2 1-bedroom flat and cannot imagine squeezing two more bedrooms in the same space.

I think it's about 149 square metres.

My house is 75 square metres. So it's HUGE to me.

I can get up to 105 square metres if I include the attic (not really useable space).

Terraces are often quite big compared to new builds. Often a 2 bed terrace has 2 large double bedrooms, the same space would be a 3 bed new build (with about 3 bathrooms). They look small from the outside but they go back a long way.

1000 sq ft is an average 3 bed round here (built 1940s to 1980s) , but the new build 3 beds are more like 800 sq ft.

Our house is 1750sqf. 4 bed, 2 receptions, separate dining room, 2 bath, utility, cloak room and basement. Feels huge to us but we did live in a 700sqf flat as a family of four for years!

As a contract my old house was just shy of 3000 sqft, 4 double bedrooms and a single, however only one substantial sized bathroom upstairs and a downstairs loo. Moderate sized living room then a huge open plan kitchen, dining, living, library type space, almost the size of my current house square footage, but in suburbia, I live somewhere far nicer now!

That's a very generous size for a 3-bed. Around us there are lots of ex-council semis on the market and 3 bedroom houses are typically 65m²/700ft² for the normal ones, 70m²/750ft² for the slightly posher ones on the corner plots. The one you are looking at is more than double that size

Mine is that size and it's larger than average for a 3 bed. A lot depends on where you live as a sense of perception, areas with older homes whether city terraces or country cottages are tiny homes whereas on suburban estates there's lots of detached newer homes. Also in some parts of the world my home would have several generations crammed in whereas 1550sqft is plenty for 2 people

Jeez all these people saying it's average 😲
My 3bed house is less than 1000sqft, my parent's (what I consider large) 4bed detached house is 1400sqft.

Here’s the official answer (but in sq m).

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5f047a01d3bf7f2be8350262/Size_of_English_Homes_Fact_Sheet_EHS_2018.pdf

As other have said, however, newer builds tend to have smaller rooms so they can squeeze in an extra bedroom and they have smaller plot sizes meaning the building tends to have no loft as an extra bedroom or two has been squished in. This results in a smaller feel for the sq footage as the ground floor living space is commensurate with a 2/3 bed house rather than a 4 bed one. This seems to have particularly become a thing over the past 20 years.

It's big I'd say, mine is smaller and the 4 bedrooms all fit king size beds and furniture, I have 3 bathrooms plus a wc, although no utility but a large kitchen/diner.

This is so true!

My house is over 3000sq ft but with big landings and hallway, the living room feels proportionally small and the main bathroom is definitely on the small side.

I think it’s big, it’s exactly the same size as my 10 year old newish build house. I have a very big hall, a large lounge, a very big kitchen/diner, another small reception room, a unity room. Upstairs are 4 bedrooms, 2 are really big and both have large en-suites and two bedrooms are small doubles. I also have three large cupboards.

Larger than average. But layout is everything. Poky rooms and loads of space wasted on corridors and landings and small storage cupboards can make even a big house feel poky.

I'm guessing it's a 4 bed. On new build estates they seem to average between 1300 and 1500. Older houses feel more spacious as they are not sectioned off with utility rooms and bathrooms

New builds all seem to have very small rooms and very small plots. Older properties, which might not look so impressive, seem to be better proportioned in my experience.