Are the houses on your street the same?

[alwsysri]

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.

My street was laid out around 1870 and the land sold off in small plots to small builders, each plot could accommodate 6-12 houses. Each builder built a different design of houses on their plots though all built the same time apart from 2 houses built post WW2 as originals destroyed by Luftwaffe.

No, we have quite a mixture. Ours is the most common type - semi detached with small garden at the front, side area and large contained garden at the back.
I think they were built in the 40s - just assuming because that's what was stated on the paperwork when we moved in.

Further down we have a whole set of new build homes. They're town houses with private back gardens but very nice looking.

Ours is the end house right by the park though so it does feel completely different to the others as we get a lovely view from the landing window at the side, especially at sunset.

I live in a small close of 14 homes. Each plot was sold individually (1960s) for the owners to built their own houses. So the homes are all different. There are three bungalows and the rest are houses. Some of the plots of land (not ours) are huge and the houses on these plots have been extended. The smallest dwelling is a two bedroom bungalow, the largest has eight bedrooms (three generations of family live here). The only problem with the close is that the road is quite narrow, so you can only park on your driveway.

Lots of different styles including some apartments, new development

Nothing the same in my street. All self builds, ranging from 1970s to late 1990s. Something I love about mainland Europe.
Before I left the UK I lived in a new housing estate that was built in 1995 and every house looked more or less the same just different sizes.

3 phases on the street... the original two pais of semi detached (which are different!), a terrace of town houses and a block of apartments.

The numbering is all off.... only the original 4 have numbers. The town houses have letters and the apartments have a number with Xxxx house.

No, many different styles and ages of houses and some newer apartment buildings. I'm on a road into the local high street, so has been build on over a few hundred years hence lots of different properties.

Mine: No. A real mix of houses and flats.

My mum’s: Also no. One side is larger bungalows, the opposite smaller ones, and some houses further down. Some modifications since they were built, especially porches. Oddly nobody seems to have had a dormer conversion, I think there must be a covenant or something against it because the larger bungalows have huge loft spaces that would be perfect for such a conversion.

Yes all look the same apart from ours.

We've got the only detached one and it's a totally different design to the rest.

I live on the road leaving a small town so it’s a mix of stone cottages, converted barns and Victorian terraces. The town is practically just Victorian terraces though.

They’re all a similar style but some are detached and some semi-detached. All were originally bungalows but most have had the loft converted or have been extended in other ways since the 1930s when they were built.

No, there are 5 houses in our cul de sac.
They were built end of the 50's by the builder who built an estate about 2 miles away, apparently he loved the area and built these 5 for his family, so everyone had a different idea of what they wanted.

All Edwardian and then some built in the 1920’s. There are a couple of newer builds on what was an orchard until around the 1980’s.

Nope - not at all (it's one reason I love the street) - mix of various size houses from around the early 1900s (ours is about 1918) and then some newer ones dotted in in the gaps between them. Gets a bit more identical as you move on in either direction, or into the side streets which are more Victorian terrace territory, but this must have been a small cluster that were then surrounded as time moved on.

Yes. Mock Ulster cottages, but very pretty, if impractical. There are two different styles and a mixture of semi detached and detached, but they are all basically the same. About 50% of them now have loft conversions, extensions and conservatories. They are a bit hard to personalise because of their distinctive style, but plenty of people have managed it with varying degrees of success.

I live in a 1950s detached on a main road. Next door is a block of terraces from the 1800s. Further up the road there are builds from the 1990. Every house is different and we love thinking about which of the other houses on the street we may want to move into in future. The adage of buy the worst house on the road wouldn’t work for our road, as the 2 up 2 down terraces with a yard are very different to the 6 bed detached with stain glass windows and a winding driveway!

The first half of the Street is Victorian terraces so they all look the same. Then there are several.spaced out Victorian detached houses. Some of them now have 1980s houses in between. Ours is a detached 20s house that doesn't look like any of the others. The house next door was built the same year as ours and looks completely different

I live in a New Town. Nearly all the houses look the same! The road I live on is rows of terraces. 3 bedrooms in the middle and either 4 beds or 2 beds at the ends.

My friend lives on the other side of town in a road that has identical terraces to mine.

As they were built as social housing in the 50s they all have nice big rooms.

I live in a cul-de-sac of 10 houses. 2 are detached and the other 8 are semis in pairs. The pairs are mirror images of each other. But interesting, all the semis have a different pattern of brick or stone facing. All are unique. Mine for instance is a uniformly placed sandy-coloured brick. Whereas the neighbour I'm attached to has a crazy-paving stone effect!
They were built in 1966, and I personally like that the builders made them all ever so slightly different.

No. 14 houses in total. Our side are all different and were built at different times. We have much bigger gardens. The oldest is Victorian, ours 1925, of the other three, I'd say one was 70s, one 80s and one 90s.

Opposite an enormous house was demolished in the 90s and there are four exec homes that are pretty similar. At the entrance, a substantial Victorian pile was demolished in the noughties and four smaller identical exec homes and a larger one tucked behind were built.

No. I don't live on a road as such and there are only a few surrounding unique houses.

Yes, Victorian terrace in a conservation area, so they all look the same, all with sash windows, etc. No modifications to front of houses or front walls allowed. We have different coloured front doors, and there are a variety of window dressings (some curtains, some roman blinds).

Only two houses on my street and they are identical

And I should add: it looks lovely. I love the uniformity and thinking about the history of the place.

Not at all. We have a couple from late 1800s, a few large detatched edwardian ones, quite a few 30s semis. One run of 3 20s terraced. Few 60s bungalows, few 90s new builds and then a couple of bungalows from the last 10years.

It's one of the reasons we liked the street, lots of trees and large variation of properties/ people.