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The houses are significant in the development of the West Island settlement which grew after Government House was located on West Island in 1953. [ 1 ] The elevated houses are significant as examples of Australian Government housing on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands with a plan form and design suited to local climatic conditions.
The Wimpey No-fines House was a construction method and series of house designs produced by the George Wimpey company and intended for mass-production of social housing for families, developed under the Ministry of Works post-World War II Emergency Factory Made programme.
The houses have three bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom, living room and front porch. The design of the houses is in the shape of a "T" - hence the name. [1] The "Type 2" houses were also built during the 1950s. Several variations of the houses have been achieved by lengthening the base plan and most have distinctive raking on the end walls. The ...
Nearly 40,000 of these structures were built between 1946 and 1949 to house families. Asbestos cement, genericized as fibro, fibrolite (short for "fibrous (or fibre) cement sheet"; but different from the natural mineral fibrolite), or AC sheet, is a composite building material consisting of cement and asbestos fibres pressed into thin rigid ...
Home in the Queenslander style. Australian residential architectural styles have evolved significantly over time, from the early days of structures made from relatively cheap and imported corrugated iron (which can still be seen in the roofing of historic homes) to more sophisticated styles borrowed from other countries, such as the California bungalow from the United States, the Georgian ...
Popcorn ceilings, in pre-1970s and early formulations, often contained white asbestos fibers. When asbestos was banned in ceiling treatments by the Clean Air Act in the United States, [3] popcorn ceilings fell out of favor in much of the country. However, in order to minimize economic hardship to suppliers and installers, existing inventories ...
Levittown houses in 1958. After World War II, America's post-war prosperity and baby boom had created a crisis of affordable housing, [1] especially for returning veterans. . Levitt & Sons chose an area known as Island Trees near Hempstead, Long Island, as the site for a huge building project for housing these vete
The houses mainly have three bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom and living room with a large hall leading onto the front porch. There is a separate laundry out the back of the house. The Shire Clerk's house has a large added verandah to the west. [1] In 2000 the condition of the houses was assessed as still being good. [1]