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 a worker's cottage. Probably got an old fridge in next door front garden.

I hate the way that flamingo paper is used in one of the bathrooms, its chopped off both at the top and the bottom.

I imagine the owner of this house is hardworking, bright and has done very well at work based on their own merits, with a degree or equivalent obtained through work. I don’t think this is the house of a traditional middle class professional eg solicitor, doctor, stockbroker, actuary, journalist, it’s the house of an aspirer. I absolutely hate Redrow, the houses are really horrible and postmodern and the historical styles they ape all shoved together eg mock Tudor next to mock arts and crafts. I’d rather live in a 30s 3 bed semi - I wonder if the square footage is that much more.

When I think of a middle class home I think of a period home, Georgian, Victorian, Edwardian, bay windows, high ceilings, proper hardwood floors, original if possible, big rugs, open fires with original fireplaces or wood burners, a range cooker, ceiling roses, original features, coving etc, eclectic furniture a mix or some modern some antiques, lots of books/bookshelves. Colour, texture. Not white shiny, or grey. When I was a student I used to walk home past houses like that there was one with a mum and child often practising piano together and it was just like that and it always looked so warm and cosy. Very different from the part of East London I grew up in!

Who is doing very well!

Nah, it’s too new and too put together!

I could only dream of a house like this!

The average house price is 270k apparently, so it’s significantly more expensive than that.

Are the other houses in the area old stone / listed or with significantly more land?

It looks suburban to me, but I cannot tell about class. The décor, lower middle class perhaps. Carefully mainstream/low risk taste, few obvious heirlooms.

It's giving 'desperate to make people think I'm middle class' vibes...

I would say more tradesman done well house.

It seems like this is a piss take because it’s so ridiculous.

The average house size in the UK is approximately 818 to 915 sq ft. this is 2,300+

If you don’t think having that amount of space in a property is middle class then you’re on another planet. But what does it matter. You buy wha you afford at the time.

From your replies, I see that you do actually think it is middle class, but wanted people to say it is not, because you don’t want to be seen as middle class? Bonkers.

As a working class person who is now living in a 850 sq foot house I don’t know if I could even describe myself as working class anymore because of my salary/lifestyle! There’s so many factors.

its OK. Round here it would be £1.5m though

i can imagine a doctor or solicitor living in this house. It’s fabulous I can only assume the posters criticising it are very wealthy indeed and living in mansions! don’t know anyone who lives in a house like this. It makes mine look like a hovel!

and a bit new money

My god, some of these answers are trying way too hard. ‘At best upper working class, because it’s a new build with a hot tub’ 😂😂 It’s giving green!

OP - why do you care?

They have rolled up green towels as a feature.. I think that tells us all we need to know.

It is expensive, but class and money are not the same.

Just because someone lives in a large house, that does not automatically mean they are middle class. As I said, it's giving 'please think I am middle class' vibes...... Too try-hard.

Yeah, and too grey and white and bland.

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Does any ‘evidence of travel’ count? My aunties entire fridge front is full of interesting magnets from every destination she’s been to ranging from Majorca and turkey to Great Yarmouth and Blackpool.

No study, so it’s doomed really

I think when people talk about middle class here it’s assumed they mean upper middle class, but the middle class is a broad church.

To me that house is lower middle class, aspirational-basic (the Deano meme if that means anything to anyone).

Tbh I am distracted by how much good garden space has been covered by lawn, wood, or stones. I do not know about the class/money question but I would have invested in roses!

Do houses have a class system?

It's to do with where they went to school (sorry, couldn't resist) 😅