Is this what you’d consider to be a ‘middle class’ style house?

It's giving 'desperate to make people think I'm middle class' vibes...

Are the other houses in the area old stone / listed or with significantly more land?

It looks suburban to me, but I cannot tell about class. The décor, lower middle class perhaps. Carefully mainstream/low risk taste, few obvious heirlooms.

The average house price is 270k apparently, so it’s significantly more expensive than that.

I could only dream of a house like this!

Nah, it’s too new and too put together!

Who is doing very well!

When I think of a middle class home I think of a period home, Georgian, Victorian, Edwardian, bay windows, high ceilings, proper hardwood floors, original if possible, big rugs, open fires with original fireplaces or wood burners, a range cooker, ceiling roses, original features, coving etc, eclectic furniture a mix or some modern some antiques, lots of books/bookshelves. Colour, texture. Not white shiny, or grey. When I was a student I used to walk home past houses like that there was one with a mum and child often practising piano together and it was just like that and it always looked so warm and cosy. Very different from the part of East London I grew up in!

I imagine the owner of this house is hardworking, bright and has done very well at work based on their own merits, with a degree or equivalent obtained through work. I don’t think this is the house of a traditional middle class professional eg solicitor, doctor, stockbroker, actuary, journalist, it’s the house of an aspirer. I absolutely hate Redrow, the houses are really horrible and postmodern and the historical styles they ape all shoved together eg mock Tudor next to mock arts and crafts. I’d rather live in a 30s 3 bed semi - I wonder if the square footage is that much more.

I hate the way that flamingo paper is used in one of the bathrooms, its chopped off both at the top and the bottom.

It's a worker's cottage. Probably got an old fridge in next door front garden.

Working class people can be wealthy and live in big houses!

Back to my earlier question, is OP meaning middle class or income? They are not the same thing.

Phew, I’m over the line 😂

quite a good insight into what people really think about class in the UK on this thread. Every cliche out in full. First prize probably goes to this:

at best it's upper working class / lower middle class. The decor is not nice, there's no sense of class, style or history. Quite a few tacky features (like the hot tub).

A living room is a class signifying phrase for the same thing as a sitting room, but in an upper class residence traditionally you might have had a morning room, a drawing room etc so the sitting room was where you sat and relaxed at a particular time of day and simply called it a sitting room to differentiate from any of your other reception rooms.

Calling it a living room might imply it's your only dedicated reception room and therefore you are a poor lowly povvo, though it's still posher than calling it "the front room" like we did in my childhood home.

Living room - Somewhere you sit on a settee and eat rich tea biscuits straight from the packet.

Sitting room - The settee's called a sofa and it's chocolate Hobnobs served on a plate with doily.

Lounge - You're horizontal a couch with a Domino's pizza balancing on your hoody front.

Parlour - Purely used for viewing dead aunt in casket.

It's over £600k. On what planet is that a working class house?

Nevermind middle class, it’s in the middle of nowhere! MC is less about the house and more about the area IMO - there are terrace rows in London that are undoubtedly MC and mansions in other areas that definitely are not.

I’d wager that everyone sneering about it wouldn’t wish to post their own houses for judgement. One persons trash and all that…..

It’s a big house but not middle class. Too new and boring. A bit Dubai

I live in a 1930s house which is similar to this (pebbledash) it isn’t beautiful outside but it’s wide, big garden, big bedrooms for kids and they have their own attic den. We were in a pretty but narrow Victorian terrace and the life upgrade has felt huge! We’re in London.

Do houses have a class system? Is it the size, the area, the age? I feel happy to have a diverse group of friends from all different backgrounds, I don’t think I could pigeonhole them into ‘house types’.

I know people who have an ex-council flat (bought for over £1.5m), which they bought because of the area.

You like what you like, what you can afford, local amenities such as culture, transport links, schools, etc. I know people who hate their house (in terms of build), but it hits most of their needs.

If it suits you, get it. Hopefully you have friends that aren’t judgmental so embrace it!

Unnecessary snobby as fuck comment.

It's a perfectly nice house.

That's a nasty comment about someone's home!

It has real grass and internal walls! That's a rarity!

Or middle class and worried they might get some electrician working class stink on them?