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

I wouldn’t expect someone who didn’t have a career job to be able to live in a house like this, so in that sense I do think there is such a thing as ‘middle class houses’.

Even social housing of a similar size and age doesn’t look like this.

Yes, middle class, not upper middle but middle class. You would have to be on something more than a standard working class income to afford this .

It's a very 'standard' looking Redrow home typical of their estates all over the country. I would expect someone in the middle to live in it, class is irrelevant.

I live in a one bedroom flat with a small additional room that cannont be called a bedroom unless you are the local council. It was last valued at £700k and I paid £8k for it and have had a mortgage since 1976. I am working class.

Totally depends on the area. Where I live you would have to be named in the panama papers to afford that kind of house. Also depends on the middle class trends in your area. In my city many middle class people would baulk at a new build unless it was a certified passivhaus ecohome made of organically grown straw bales with triple glazing installed by artisans on a living wage...

I like it. Doesn't look tacky or anything. I don't like new builds particularly but yeah I think it looks expensive. Id imagine a new range rover in the drive ...that's the kind of image they want to project.

I would say big expensive house so owners must be well off. This could be due to lottery win, having a well paid job abroad on a rig, inheritance, professional jobs (not thay oil rig isn't but you get paid a lot more for all levels).

Assuming middle class probably in sense of price and area.

OP I have read all your posts and you don't say how your vote works.
YAVVVU to put a vote but ask an "is it this or that" question and not say which is which.

Nobody lives in a "middle-class house". They live in a house, and its status is determined by its occupants, be they common as muck or the creme de la creme. It wouldn't be a MCH if the garden was strewn with a discarded half-burnt sofa, broken plastic toys, fag ends and several used nappies, and it wouldn't be a MCH if it had a carriage and four and a butler......🤣

The decor inside is pretty bland imo, no character; the exterior is naice. It’s a good price point or seems it - where I used to live in the uk that would probably be £2mil +!!! It’s probably middle class by many people’s view

It’s middle class but done up quite cheaply. The fixtures and fittings are not high end. It’s a nice house but IMO it isn’t particularly well finished but it’s obviously not a working class house!

Tbh this is a standard new build design by Redrow the same house in an expensive area listing for nearly 1mllion but considerably cheaper for the exact same
house in a cheaper area.

I may be living on another planet but that doesn’t sound like a working class house at all if it’s worth that much.

But of course it’s area dependent.

I live in a 2 bed semi that’s worth about £170k and I wouldn’t class it as a working class house.

How is it different to middle class? How do you define working class and how do you define middle class. Isn’t income part of it. Doesn’t middle class mean in the middle, not in the top 10% elite but not unemployed or low waged?

That house would be close £1m home counties more in london surburbs so depends on area. And would be at top of middle class

Dunno about the interior but the house amd garden is a lovely size ❤️

Depends what you mean by middle class. Not many middle class people would be able to afford a house like that round here.

When people buy a house they use money to pay for it, class is not a requirement to secure a mortgage for a home.

I live in an affluent area, which makes this house seem like a total bargain… but not everyone who lives there is middle class - there are tradesmen who specialised early on in trades who earn a very good income - for example a neighbour who trained as an Air Conditioning installer, who has grown himself a fabulous business, but doesn’t meet the typical ‘middle class’ description… but has obviously been successful and worked hard to achieve all he has and lives in a much more expensive house than the one you have highlighted.

Where I live, a detached house that size on a plot of land that big would be about £4m. The new owners would probably raze it and start again, and build 3 houses, all with subterranean levels, one of which would have an indoor pool.
a neighbour of mine is doing exactly that.

It’s a pretty big standard new build. The snob in me would say it can’t be truly middle class as there is a hot tub, the decor is tasteless, there’s no books or piano, and the garden is tiny, so maybe it’s aspirational lower middle class at a push? It’s probably a middle income earners home though, but that’s very different to middle class.

It's the people in it that gives it class or not

Why? Would the upper classes have an indoor heated pool?

not really in my neck of the woods. You’re looking at around 1million at least here for a decent 4 bad detached in a ‘nice’ area …..

I'd say new money, but not middle class

What a load of old tosh. The styling of the house’s interior is nothing to do with any of the points you raise.

The house is a new build on an estate. It Is bland and one of many of a limited design selection from Redrow which are replicated across the country.