How old must a house be before it is considered an old house?

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Is this all relative? Does it depend on renovation? General condition? Which country it is in?

We have a 300 year-old house. Before we bought it, a hundred years was old. Now I have no idea. There are so many 300+ year-old houses that have been partially and/or fully renovated that the word old has lost perspective for me.

Definitely depends on country - an old house in Australia wouldn't make the grade as an old house in Britain!

Local context matters too. When was the bulk of local housing built?

I was going to say 100 but I don't really think of 1930s housing as being particularly old. Based on that I'd say old houses start at around 150 years but I don't think of something as being really old until about 200 years.

It does depend a bit on how it's been renovated. We lived in a 1760s house but it had been rendered and modernised inside, so it never felt old until you tried to work on it. Whereas my parent's current house is 1630s and that feels genuinely old as it's cotswold stone inside and out, exposed beams, everything is wonky etc.

We're in the UK in a large village - much of the housing was built in the last century - I'd say that was modern. Then there are gradations of "old". The oldest house in our village is probably c1500 and bits of our church go back to 13th Century. That's all really old.

I grew up in a Victorian house - that was oldish, but not in a pita way - no low beams or listings. My DP now live in a Georgian house. It is listed and definitely feels a bit old when things go wrong.

My house was built in 1740 (ish) and that feels old. Especially when working on it. Nothing is straight or even. I think old house are pre 1900? But not based on anything just how I see them. When we visited America houses you get then ours were museums and our house was older then the city we were in. So in America maybe pre WW2 feels like an old house?

Pre WW1 I spose? Or pre-1900

Then I suppose pre 1850 as properly old

Ours was built in 1665 so it’s pretty old!!

It’s listed too.

When nothing is straight or even. Ha. That would be our house and annoys DH immensely, although I reassure him it adds character. So, there is no system in, say, England, that categories houses? Sometimes I see houses on house and garden uk (sp?) that are 500 years old and are completely renovated. Are they as old as some of their original structure/s or as new as the renovation?

I know it's not fully true but I've realised I mostly judge it on build quality rather than age. If it's a shitty tiny flimsy house full of construction issues it's a new-build and everything else is "old" to me.

I don't think I've ever lived anywhere less than 80 years old except my uni dorm.

I'm in an inter-war flat (Scotland). It's certainly not a new build or a 'modern' ugly 60s type of apartment but I wouldn't consider it old due to the lack of high ceilings and bay window.

I'd say Victorian or older

I live in a victorian house-built 1867 in a town where a lot of building was happening around then.

I consider it an old house. Lots of beautiful period features and charm and I love it. Although do agree pp-nothing is level including my cooker so everything slides a bit to the back of the pan.
I think we can get fixed and it's on "The List" which is very long and never ending but I do love it!

I’m have no idea.

Our house was built in 1620, so that feels old (not necessarily better than new, believe me).

The age of the property usually refers to the building itself so a 300 year old house which has been renovated inside is still an old house. I would say anything built before 1900 is old.

To me anything built prior to about 1955 I would consider old.

Anything pre 1900.

A friend of mine was going on about her ‘old’ house the other day and I did laugh. It was built in 1992!

I’d say Edwardian or older.

Victorian or older.

I think anything pre war is old.

I work with old buildings. The youngest I've worked on is 1978 but that was mostly because it was part of a much older development.

Ive also had to record fairly modern additions to old houses.

My house was built in 1882 but it's just a standard Victorian terrace - I don't think of it as an "old" house, I guess because it's just like thousands of others in London suburbs!

I would think over 100 years - so built before 1920. Although the other end of the scale, I think if anything built during the 1970s or afterwards as a new-build . Probably because of that being within my memory .

I think I’d consider pre-1900 as old. The cottage I grew up in was ‘old’ but my current home, while being approx 100 years old, isn’t quite ‘old’.

I'd say anything 100 years or more in age is what I'd consider old. For the uk. I think anything which is more than 150/200 years old I'd say is very old.