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

Would also like to know this.

I'd say "working class made good".

Worry about what people think about you?? For buying a big house?
Christ alive I never thought I would ever say this but check your privilege

Disclaimer - not envy, DH and I own 4 homes

HTH

It's a nice house, could easily be a lovely house with some personalisation but there's almost no garden!

Definitely middle class though.

It's gorgeous! 😍

The thing is, if you want to move to a specific area, there's not necessarily much choice of homes to move to, so I wouldn't strictly judge a style of structure as an indicator of class, unless I saw new owners install pebble dash or faux Tudor cladding or something inappropriate for the building.

But an interior certainly can be a class indicator as it displays personal taste and that in turn shows their exposure to culture and wordly experience.

I live in the cheapest house in my area and I often look wistfully at bigger houses in my neighborhood, quite often I think it's a shame they can afford a big nice detached house with an in out drive, but their front garden looks like a shit tip.

It looks like a self employed electricians home

It’s an odd question, are you working class and want people to think you are middle,?

Based on all the books I ever read growing up and beyond, and watching The Good Life, a middle class house in the 20th c would be:

Victorian to 1930s detached. Bay window. Big back garden. A shrubbery and fruit plants. High hedges. Off road drive and parking. Easy access to a city. Leafy. Big rooms. Two reception rooms.
It would have a study and a den and a Woman Who Does. A piano.

Isn’t run of the mill more equivalent to middle of the road?

Middle class is something else, and yes I would feel this property would appeal to more aspirational, professional families.

I don’t know the area at all, and despite the housing market, dropping almost everywhere, it is still less expensive than our local area. I wish our area was cheaper and more people could have a realistic chance of buying their own home.

Or middle class and worried they might get some electrician working class stink on them?

It has real grass and internal walls! That's a rarity!

That's a nasty comment about someone's home!

Unnecessary snobby as fuck comment.

It's a perfectly nice house.

Do houses have a class system? Is it the size, the area, the age? I feel happy to have a diverse group of friends from all different backgrounds, I don’t think I could pigeonhole them into ‘house types’.

I know people who have an ex-council flat (bought for over £1.5m), which they bought because of the area.

You like what you like, what you can afford, local amenities such as culture, transport links, schools, etc. I know people who hate their house (in terms of build), but it hits most of their needs.

If it suits you, get it. Hopefully you have friends that aren’t judgmental so embrace it!

I live in a 1930s house which is similar to this (pebbledash) it isn’t beautiful outside but it’s wide, big garden, big bedrooms for kids and they have their own attic den. We were in a pretty but narrow Victorian terrace and the life upgrade has felt huge! We’re in London.

It’s a big house but not middle class. Too new and boring. A bit Dubai

I’d wager that everyone sneering about it wouldn’t wish to post their own houses for judgement. One persons trash and all that…..

Nevermind middle class, it’s in the middle of nowhere! MC is less about the house and more about the area IMO - there are terrace rows in London that are undoubtedly MC and mansions in other areas that definitely are not.

It's over £600k. On what planet is that a working class house?

Living room - Somewhere you sit on a settee and eat rich tea biscuits straight from the packet.

Sitting room - The settee's called a sofa and it's chocolate Hobnobs served on a plate with doily.

Lounge - You're horizontal a couch with a Domino's pizza balancing on your hoody front.

Parlour - Purely used for viewing dead aunt in casket.

A living room is a class signifying phrase for the same thing as a sitting room, but in an upper class residence traditionally you might have had a morning room, a drawing room etc so the sitting room was where you sat and relaxed at a particular time of day and simply called it a sitting room to differentiate from any of your other reception rooms.

Calling it a living room might imply it's your only dedicated reception room and therefore you are a poor lowly povvo, though it's still posher than calling it "the front room" like we did in my childhood home.

quite a good insight into what people really think about class in the UK on this thread. Every cliche out in full. First prize probably goes to this:

at best it's upper working class / lower middle class. The decor is not nice, there's no sense of class, style or history. Quite a few tacky features (like the hot tub).

Phew, I’m over the line 😂

Working class people can be wealthy and live in big houses!

Back to my earlier question, is OP meaning middle class or income? They are not the same thing.