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Despite their association with the working class and Victorian Britain, terraced houses remain popular. In 2007, a report by Halifax Estate Agents showed prices of terraces had increased by 239% over the previous ten years, with an average price of £125,058. [8] By 2013, the average price for a terraced house had exceeded £200,000. [30]
In Great Britain and former British colonies, a Victorian house generally means any house built during the reign of Queen Victoria. During the Industrial Revolution , successive housing booms resulted in the building of many millions of Victorian houses which are now a defining feature of most British towns and cities.
A type of terraced house known latterly as the "one-floor-over-basement" was a style of terraced house particular to the Irish capital. They were built in the Victorian era for the city's lower middle class and emulated upper class townhouses. [10] Single floor over basement terraced houses were unique to Dublin in the Victorian era.
The 1900 House in question is 50 Elliscombe Road, Charlton, South-East LondonAn 1890s-built two-storey terraced house with a drawing room, a dining room, a kitchen, a scullery, a bathroom, three bedrooms (there were actually four, but one was used as a safety room with a telephone) and an outside loo.
The earliest surviving terraced house in Melbourne is Glass Terrace, 72–74 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy (1853–54). Royal Terrace at 50–68 Nicholson Street, Fitzroy, completed three years later is only slightly younger and is the oldest surviving complete row.
Two-up two-down terraced housing in Oldham, Greater Manchester. Two-up two-down is a type of small house with two rooms on the ground floor and two bedrooms upstairs. [1] [2] [3] There are many types of terraced houses in the United Kingdom, and these are among the most modest.
A typical yard of 14 back-to-back houses. Note the shared "privies" (outdoor toilets) and "wash houses" Low quality houses were constructed for working class people at a high density, with scant regard for space, comfort or quality of life.
The decoration on the terrace is based on the Parthenon marbles, an exhibit in the British Museum since 1816. The terrace was built by Charles Jaspar Joly, son of Jean Jaspar Joly, private secretary to Lord William Fitzgerald. The building in which the current Wilder townhouse resides was built in 1878 as a nursing home for retired governesses.