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Typical Victorian terraced houses in England, built in brick with slate roofs, stone details and modest decoration. In Great Britain and former British colonies , a Victorian house generally means any house built during the reign of Queen Victoria .
A row of typical British terraced houses in Manchester. Terraced houses have been popular in the United Kingdom, particularly England and Wales, since the 17th century. They were originally built as desirable properties, such as the townhouses for the nobility around Regent's Park in central London, and the Georgian architecture that defines the World Heritage Site of Bath.
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.
In the Victorian era, as terrace houses became a popular housing choice, South Australia's population had a distinct composition: it was a migrant society, with over two-thirds of the population born overseas, and a diverse one at that; for instance, almost 10 per cent of the colony were born in Germany. [98]
Villa: a large house which one might retreat to in the country. Villa can also refer to a freestanding comfortable-sized house, on a large block, generally found in the suburbs, and in Victorian terraced housing, a house larger than the average byelaw terraced house, often having double street frontage.
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.
Medieval house using a timber structure High-end Georgian stone terrace at Royal Crescent, Bath. In the medieval era and later, houses were often built of timber [12] and were heated by fires. Houses were typically built individually until the advent of town planning in the Georgian era, when terraces began to be built. [13]
Houses of this type had become common in inner city areas of Victorian England, especially in Birmingham, Bradford, [7] Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Salford and in Nottingham, where about 7,500 of their 11,000 houses (roughly 68 per cent) [2] were built back-to-back. Town authorities were well aware that back-to-backs were undesirable, but ...