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.

Yes they all look the same though my terrace of 6 houses is about 1.5 meters wider than the rest in the close.

There's semis on one side of the road, and terraces in groups of about 6 houses on the other. Quite a lot of the semis and end-terraced ones have extensions, and some have garages either at the front or the back, and others don't. A few have paved over their front gardens and park on there.

When I bought my flat in London, the entire street as well as the one parallel to it had originally been built to exactly the same style (purpose built maisonettes). Due to the overall plot size and the fact that they were maisonettes, there was only so much that you could do to them. When I bought, 6 were on the market and their asking prices varied by about £25k. In some ways, it was like buying a car and working out what finish I wanted. Did I want the one which had been done up to a really high standard, a medium standard or the one which needed a new bathroom. Did I want the one with a decked garden or paved garden? What end of the street did I want to be at? What side of the street did I want to be on. It made it quite an easy decision!
Where we live now, all of the 20 or so houses on the street were pretty much the same floor plan to start off with but, in the 50 years or so since they were built, most have been extended and in a variety of ways. I was delighted when a neighbour who hadn't done anything to theirs invited me over and I got to see what the original floorplan would have been (and how much bigger the original garden was).
I grew up rurally and all of the houses had been built individually and at different times so varied hugely.

No, well not our end anyway, Our side were all built to order in the 1930’s with various specifications. They’re all typical but different detached 30’s houses some with more 30’s adornments than others - we’re lucky as ours has kept all the bits - fancy doors and windows, panelling, picture rails, etc. Some of them have been butchered in the last 90 years. The other side is typical 60s/70’s semis but again, they’re all slightly different. The other end of the road has lots of Victorian terraces.

I live on an estate of about 60 houses all 4 beds built in the 1960s. Obviously they have nearly all been modified over the years but originally there were 2 house designs. However each design had 2 or 3 cladding varieties and the roofs either had a front gable or a side gable (effectively rotating the roof). One of the designs also came as either a semi or detached. So to look at them you wouldn't know there were really only 2 layouts. It's quite clever actually.

No, they are a mixture of different eras and styles. There are some original very old houses, some cottages, some new cul-de-sacs diving off to the sides, and quite a lot of 1930s semis and detacheds.

Our end of the road is the first six to be built in a spate of expansion in the 30s, so three lots of semi-detached built to the same pattern. They're different now because they've been modified and extended over the years, but they all retain a feature about the upper storey that I love and isn't seen often enough.

No, I live on a rural lane of only 32 houses, most of which were self builds. I believe the plots were given to local men returning from World War I. The house names on a few dwellings reflect the surname of the first owner.
Most of the original builds were like chalets, two rooms. Only one remains that has the original frontage but it's now extended to the back and has been insulated and clad to the front. Most are bungalows with a few newer builds. I think the youngest house is 1992.
The house on the corner on the smallest plot underwent extensive renovations and extension last year and is now for sale at an exorbitant price. Every week yet another estate agent puts their sign up, they'll get nowhere near asking price on that, they'll need to drop it by a quarter million.