Council Housing

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Category 3.0 in the Chimni Home Typology 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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Background On UK Social Houses[edit]

Notable Examples Of Terraced Houses[edit]

Social Housing In Art & Media[edit]

'Harold Gilman's House at Letchworth' 1912 by Spencer Gore from his series of paintings of Letchworth
Cookham Rise by Stanley Spencer 1938
‘Essex Housing Estate’ by artist Edward Bawden 1954
Shooters Hill by artist Michael Cox 2018
‘Albuhera Close’ Enfield by artist Michael Cox 2018
The New Build Council Houses Painting by Melissa Pentney
Trellick Tower by Paul Catherall
'Trellick Tower from the Train No 24' series by @Birmingham_81
The Grade II listed Park Hill Estate, Sheffield. One of a series by local artist Mandy Payne
‘De Beauvoir’, 2015 depicting the De Beauvoir Estate, Hackney, London by artist Michael Cox
’Camberwell Flats I (by Day)’ by David Hepher 1983.
’Space’ a pamphlet confronting issues of social housing by illustrator Cat Sims