Terraced Houses
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. In England, the first streets of houses with uniform fronts were built by Nicholas Barbon, the Huguenot entrepreneur during the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire of 1665. The Georgian idea of treating a row of houses as if it were a palace front, giving the central houses columned fronts under a shared pediment, appeared first in London's Grosvenor Square and in Bath's Queen Square. Speculative builders like Thomas Cubitt picked up on the theme and terraces soon became common-place.
In 2005 the English Heritage report "Low Demand Housing and the Historic Environment" found that repairing a standard Victorian terraced house over thirty years is around sixty-percent cheaper than building and maintaining a newly-built house. In a 2003 survey for Heritage Counts a team of experts contrasted a Victorian terrace with a house built after 1980, and found that:
Notable Examples Of Terraced Houses
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See Also In Chimni
Other Interesting Web Sites
FlickrGroup: Modernist Houses Of The 1930s
www.createstreets.com 'CreateStreets' Campaign for More Terraced Housing
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