Chimni Home Typology

The Chimni Home Typology breaks down the UK's 26 million homes into useful groups that help us explore the amazing variation in building type, style, and architectural period as we learn more about our own homes.

The Chimni Home Typology

1.0 Detached Houses

Chimni Typology Category 1.0 - A wide category of houses covering any home that doesn’t touch or share outside walls with another house or building. The category can includes every home type from the simplest cottage to the grandest Victorian villa.

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  Single story detached houses pre 1800

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  Single story 19c detached houses

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  1.3 Single story detached houses from 20c or later

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  Two story detached houses pre 1800

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  Two story 19c detached houses

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  Two story detached houses from 20c or later

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  Three or more story detached house pre 1800

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  Detached19c houses of three or more stories

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  Detached houses of three or more stories from 20c or later

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2.0 Semi-Detached Houses

Chimni Typology Category 2.0 - A semi-detached house, is a single family house built as one of a matching pair, joined in the middle and sharing a common central wall. Known in the UK as a ‘semi’ and as a ‘duplex’ in other parts of the world, these homes come in a wide variety of styles.

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  2.1 Victorian Edwardian Semi - Single Story

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  2.2 Inter-war (1920-30s) Semi - Single Story

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  2.3 Post War 20c & Modern Semis - Single Story

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  2.4 Victorian Edwardian Semi - 2 Story

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  2.5 Inter-war (1920-30s) Semi - 2Story

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  2.6 Post War 20c & Modern Semis - 2 Story

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  2.7 Victorian Edwardian Semi - 3-4 Story

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  2.8 Inter-war (1920-30s) Semi - 3-4 Story

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  2.9 Post War 20c & Modern Semis - 3-4 Story

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3.0 Terraced Houses

Chimni Typology Category 3.0 - From the opening titles of 'Coronation Street', to the 'Welsh Streets' of Liverpool where Ringo Starr was born, the terraced street is one of the most iconic images of British Housing. For Chimni a 'terraced house' is any home in a group of three or more houses, built in a row, with shared adjoining walls. Known also as ‘townhouses’ or ‘row houses’ this includes a wide range of homes from warmly familiar ‘Coronation Street’ style homes to the grand Georgian terraces gracing many UK cities.

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  3.1 Single story Georgian (or Older) Terraced Houses

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  3.2 Single story Victorian/Edwardian Terraced Houses

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  3.3 Single story Modern (mid 20c or later) Terraced Houses

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  3.4 Two Story Georgian (or Older) Terraced Houses

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  3.5 Two story Victorian/Edwardian Terraced Houses

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  3.6 Two story Modern (mid 20c or later) Terraced Houses

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  3.7 Georgian (or Older) Terraced Houses of three or more stories

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  3.8 Victorian/Edwardian Terraced Houses of three or more stories

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  3.9 Modern (mid 20c or later) Terraced Houses of three or more stories

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4.0 Flats In A House

Chimni Typology Category 4.0 - For Chimni, a 'flat in a house, could be any home made up of a one or more floors of a larger 'house' style building. This could include purpose-built ‘maisonettes’ with their own street door, purpose-built flats sharing a front door in a house-style property, or flats in properties built originally as single family houses but later sub-divided into smaller units.

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  A striking detached Moderne house.

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  Killowat House, Bath by Mollie Taylor

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  A 'Moderne' Suntrap house

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  High Cross House, Devon. One of the classic 'Moderne' houses.

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  The exquisite 'High & Over' in Amersham, Bucks.

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5.0 Flats In A Low Rise Block

Chimni Typology Category 5.0 - A flat in a ‘low rise’ block is a self-contained home in a building of up to 9 stories. These building types can include new or old buildings, modest purpose-built apartment blocks, converted office buildings or classic styles such as Victorian or Edwardian as ‘mansion blocks’.

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  5.4 Flat In A Low Rise Interwar Block With Corridor Access

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  5.5 Flat In A Low Rise Interwar Block With Balcony Access

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  5.6 Flat in a 20c Low Rise Block with Corridor Access

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  5.7 Flats in a 20c Low Rise Block with balcony access

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  5.8 Flats in a Low Rise Factory Conversion

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6.0 Flats In A High Rise Block

Chimni Typology Category 6.0 - A flat in a high rise block is any self-contained home in a multi-occupancy building of 10 stories or more. These buildings could include homes in purpose built ‘tower’ blocks, larger high rise estates or converted office buildings.

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  6.3 Flat in a 20c High Rise Block With Street Access

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7.0 Flats Above A Shop

Chimni Typology Category 7.0 - Includes various home types from the simple ‘flat above the shop’ in a normal high street, to multiple homes in blocks above shopping developments. In each type the street level buildings are retail outlets with the entrance to the homes via side doors, back stairs or rear deck-access.

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  A striking detached Moderne house.

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  Killowat House, Bath by Mollie Taylor

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  A 'Moderne' Suntrap house

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  High Cross House, Devon. One of the classic 'Moderne' houses.

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  The exquisite 'High & Over' in Amersham, Bucks.

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8.0 Homes In Other Buildings

Chimni Typology Category 8.0 - For every unusual and interesting building type there will someone who will have tried to make it into a home. This category covers a wide range or previously industrial, agricultural, military and public buildings converted into homes. Some of these are striking homes, some are quixotic fantasies. A striking number have appeared in TV and the movies.

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  8.1 Agricultural Conversions

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  8.2 Military & Wartime Buildings

• File:8.3 Churches, Schools & Other Public Buildings
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  8.4 Industrial & Other Urban Buildings

• File:8.5 Homes in Sheds & Huts
• File:8.6 Snow & Ice Homes
• File:8.7 Prefabricated Homes
• File:8.8 Other Temporary Structures
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  8.9 Underground Homes

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9.0 Moving Or Floating Homes

Chimni Typology Category 9.0 - Covering every kind of travelling home type whether on wheels such as static and mobile caravans or floating on water such as houseboats, narrowboats and barges.

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  A striking detached Moderne house.

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  Killowat House, Bath by Mollie Taylor

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  A 'Moderne' Suntrap house

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  High Cross House, Devon. One of the classic 'Moderne' houses.

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  The exquisite 'High & Over' in Amersham, Bucks.

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Special Typologies

The Chimni system recognises certain building types as Special Typologies.

See Also In Chimni

Chimni Wiki Page Building Types

Other Interesting Web Sites

Pevsner based Looking At Buildings

Office Of National Statistics Housing Trends

UK Housing Wiki

FlickrGroup: Modernist Houses Of The 1930s

CreateStreets Campaign for More Terraced Housing

ONS Census Map

References

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