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  2. Terraced houses in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The layout of a typical two-up two-down terraced house, including a yard and outside toilet. Terraced houses, as defined by various bylaws established in the 19th century, particularly the Public Health Act 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 55), are distinguished by properties connecting directly to each other in a row, sharing a party wall.

  3. Two-up two-down - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Back-to-back house - Wikipedia

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    There is no bath or means of taking a bath in many of the houses. The whole outlook from these houses is sullied by soot besmirched in a soot-laden atmosphere. Many of those houses, I am sorry to say, are in my constituency [i.e. Birmingham Small Heath]. They are houses from which men went out more than forty years ago to fight in the 1914 ...

  5. Terraced house - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Pre-regulation terraced houses in the United Kingdom

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    A pre-regulation terraced house is a type of dwelling constructed before Public Health Act 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 55). It is a type of British terraced house at the opposite end of the social scale from the aristocratic townhouse, built as cheap accommodation for the urban poor of the Industrial Revolution.

  7. Housing in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Housing in the United Kingdom represents the largest non-financial asset class in the UK; its overall net value passed the £5 trillion mark in 2014. [1] [needs update] Housing includes modern and traditional styles. About 30% of homes are owned outright by their occupants, and a further 40% are owner-occupied on a mortgage.

  8. Whittington Estate - Wikipedia

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    The Whittington Estate, also known as Highgate New Town, is a housing estate in the London Borough of Camden, North London, England.It was designed in a modernist style by Peter Tábori and Ken Adie for Camden Council's Architects Department. [1]

  9. List of building types - Wikipedia

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    An office building in Accra, Ghana.. Office buildings are generally categorized by size and by quality (e.g., "a low-rise Class A building") [2]. Office buildings by size. Low-rise (less than 7 stories)