Style of housing

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does anyone know what style of housing this is ?

trying to figure out when these style of houses were built ..

Late sixties early seventies estate houses. Nice construction. I remember an estate of them being built near me as a child

Thanks - it’s not the style I would normally go for but as I have budget restrictions I’m looking at all options.

I wonder if they are good builds as I appreciate pre war would have been better …(I think) ?

Looks 70s. Seen these at many places.

I would say late 60s/early 70s. I grew up in a similar style house, which my parents bought new in 1966.

Like mine, ours was late 60s.

Reported as fairly solid I think 👍🏻

They have cavity walls.

If you like it, it is where you want to be and it is affordable you have pretty found gold. It was a standard estate style house when it was built. The houses built around that age are generally well built and have no major issues. You could do a lot worse.

Late 70s. Some are good some less so. Ideally you want concrete floors downstairs however many have floating floors which are rubbish and flex over time.

Will hopefully have been updated over the years. 1930s houses are my fave, the last era of houses built by craftsmen not apes with power tools.

The front and back walls may be single skin. Timber upstairs walls maybe. They were built this way to be cheap. As long as it’s been maintained and improved, there are worse houses out there.

The style was built as early as the 1960s actually. Decent houses IMO, not large rooms but proper family homes.

The beauty of a non new housing estate (i.e. pre 2000s) is it was long before social housing came about so there should be no riff raff in neighbouring streets. Of course look at an aerial map for any fields nearby where developers may build on.

Thank you all, much appreciated

We live in a very similar house. 1960s built. Totally solid. No issues. Very well insulated,low energy bills. Good sized gardens and space between houses which you don't find on more recent developments.

That's incorrect. Social housing was introduced after WW2.

Yeah I meant mixing private and social housing together. It never used to be a thing.

As PP's have said, 60's/70's estate housing, generally they are fine (lived in one for years).
The details will change depending on the original developer but generally:-
The tile hung areas (cladding was also used) were to reduce the amount of brickwork and aid speed of construction (will be block/cavity behind).
Usually plasterboard walls on the first floor but breeze block throughout the ground.
Party wall may well be breeze block cavity which means noise transfer can be significant.
Original insulation will be minimal but by now you will be unlikely to find one that has not been improved.
Many did not have central heating fitted as standard so you can find boilers being located in all sorts of locations (some better than others).

I bought one (before I met my OH) and it was far nicer to live in than the 30's semi I owned before.
We lived in it for a long time and completely remodelled & extended, made it a cracking little home but you could not get away from the fact that it was a semi with minimal soundproofing from the neighbour.

Say what?

Yes everyone that lives in social housing is riff raff, can’t believe they’re no longer segregated 🙄🙄🙄

1960s -it’s almost identical to one I lived in from 1969 to 1978. Ours had underfloor heating downstairs and never seemed to be cold. I don’t remember any noise from next door either. I prefer the character of my 1930s house but it’s dearer to heat.

Looks standard 1970s wimpy house. I lived in one all my life. Good solid builds, easy to update.

very informative … love this platform !!! Thank you again everyone

Yes it did. Particularly in rural areas. What nonsense

Early 60s, I grew up in a house like that.

What nonsense. The house I grew up in (moved there in 1962) was in a New Town there was a mixture of owner occupied and social housing. It could even be ex social housing.