Are the houses on your street the same?

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I think there’s around 40 houses on my street, all built around 1890-1900. There’s a nice mixture of about four different styles of houses.

My house out of the 40, 6 are the same build.

No, not at all.

All look the same from the street.

I’ve been in about 12 of them, and all completely different inside - staircase placement, room layout, extensions and lofts etc.

Quite interesting really, as from the street they are utterly uniform.

Victorian terraces - so 150 years of people making changes!

No

No, they’re all different but built at the same time, where we are its all self builds, but when originally built you could pick from a number of styles and sizes from a book and the developer would build it for you.

Ours is a different outlook to most (if that makes sense), so our house is long and narrower rather than being square, and the door is on the side. It looks a bit like the one in the photo, but a smaller.

Interesting question, only realised recently that all those on my street (60 houses) look the same (1980s build) but have been added to over the years by different owners, however where my parents live (also 1980s, just up the road from me) there are 3 or 4 different styles. So only 1 other is the same as my parents, their 2 next door neighbours are totally different.

There’s only 14 houses on my new build estate. The two and three beds are slightly different but all match.

No, all built in 1989 but total mix of 2 bed terraces, 3-5 bed detached and some semi detached as well.

Similar to @TwinkleLights24 , mixture of two and three bed, but they match.

There’s only three houses in our cul-de-sac and they’re all different. The estate was built in the 90’s so there’s repeats of the same design as you drive through but I’ve yet to find one like ours - I think the builders went rogue with the plans!

Not at all and I find it all so interesting!

We are part of a block of terrace cottages, neighbouring 2 storey maisonettes, and some detached 60s/70s builds. Along our road is what we were told is the original mill house house 'when it were all fields'.

Then developers built a retirement village where a petrol station was in the last 5 years.

It looks pretty uniform/neat as a street though

No there is one like mine. It's an old village.

1980's build, in several small phases. There are 2 types of bungalow and 3 or 4 house types. Phases and properties have different finishes and colours (brick, tile hanging, render, roofs) so the overall effect is harmonious but not homogeneous.

Thankfully very few have been 'modernised' with grey windows etc, although many have been discreetly extended.

No, built 2013 with a mixture of terraces, semis and detached houses.

No, not at all. The cottages closest to the stream are oldest (200yrs), then are less old as they were built further away. Plus a 1930s bungalow built in one of the gardens and a new build 4 bed, tucked in what was a small piece of grazing.

No- one side is 1960s council flats (I live in one) and the other is bungalows and a few 1980s council houses. Just a small cul de sac.

No. I live on a very long street. There's a mixture of terraced, semis and a couple of detached. Some have driveways, some don't. I live at the end of the street in a small separate section of housing association flats and houses.

No. They seem to go in groups though. So say, houses 1-50 will be terraces, then some semis, then more terraces, then flats/multi occupancy buildings, then businesses, then terraces again.

About 40 houses , not in a row there is an odd set up , but there are 7 different styles and 5 that are similar to ours , although ours is extended at the back so is probably different to all the others .

Some have extensions or loft conversions etc but from the outside, there are two basic designs of house on our street.

I live in a victorian street, there is one massive double fronted house, a few smaller 3/4 bed houses either side and then rows of smaller terrace houses. The large house was built for the owner of a local quarry, the houses either side for the managers and the terraces for the workers.

I live down a street that has 90 houses, all terraced with no front gardens, all houses are the same but some are 2 bed and some are 3. Weirdly the 2 beds have a larger sq ft than the 3 beds.

The houses were built by the railway around the turn of the century (1900) to house the workers of the nearby train maintenance sheds. The station and the sheds are long gone, and out of the 90 houses, only 6 aren't council owned.

Because they are mainly council, they are very uniform with the windows/doors/number plate etc and it is quite pretty.

I am fascinated by social history and my street is a gold mine for it.

No, I live on a long lane with over 200 houses, late Victorian to modern, couple of small new-build 'estates' after being built on what was farm land and lots of 1960s builds. Ranging from semis, small detached bungalows, large semis and enormous mansions! Price range is probably £400k to over £2.5m.

There are 100's the same in my town, all ex council, all similar, well built.

No, all built the same year bur 6 different designs, different brick colour etc.

No, it was a prosperous suburb that grew up in the early 19thc for the new professional classes associated with the nearby university, hospitals and a new ‘model’ prison, so the housing is a mixture of enormous Regency houses with riverside gardens, more ordinary Victorian villas, and infill cottages for the prison wardens. The oddity is the terrain, which is very steeply sloping, so lots of houses are built down vertiginous sets of steps, and/or have no off-street parking, or it’s in coachhouses-turned-garages which need a lot of manoeuvring in and out of. Basically, car-centric people tend not to live here.