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

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or is it just run of the mill these days?

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/174843149#/?channel=RES_BUY

It's fooking shocking, IMO. No sense of solidarity. :(

To me that's Upper Middle Class.

My house is a 2 bed Victorian terrace, current value 220k at best. Definitely Working Class

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Well most ‘middle class’ people with families can’t afford that sort of house, DD and her Fiance earn £120k between them and couldn’t get a mortgage for anywhere near £600k.

There are no chimneys on this house

It depends on the area and we don't know if it's a nice area or in the middle of a council estate. I couldn't afford it regardless.

A quick glance of the street view shows an area with the same style of houses. It's definitely not among council houses.

The idea that anything other than a period house with original fixtures means you can’t be MC is ridiculous. Plenty of MC people - including those who’ve grown up in houses like this - live in modern houses. And it’s possible to love and appreciate older houses without being MC.

As for saying it’s only tradesmen who live in houses like this. No, it really isn’t. As I’m sure the posters saying this know perfectly well. This is like the threads where posters fall over themselves to prove they know what’s what by insisting upper class people all go around coated in dog hair.

I think it’s a lovely house, and would make a lovely family home.

Why does it matter to you OP? I’m curious.

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.

I'd say new money, but not middle class

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 …..

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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!