What type of semi is this?

Rolandtheroadie

Semi-detatched with integral garage.

Spicy_McHaggis

scotsman4th wrote: »

Semi-detatched with integral garage.

It's not integral.

JohnB47

I imagine, that if you had to describe it without giving an image, you could say it was a detached house with an adjoining garage and a hipped roof. In fact, as the hipped end has two roof faces, each with a different slope, it could be described as a double hipped roof.

arbrighton

Spicy_McHaggis wrote: »

It's not integral.

Well it's attached to the house, rather than being at the end of the garden like ours....

dirty_magic

Not far from we live there are lots of houses built in a similar-ish style to that with a distinctive sloping roof.

They seem to be quite desirable and everyone names them by the name of the builder that built them. If yours had a name though the estate agent would probably use it in the description.

comeandgo

The half storey is the one upstairs. It would be a two storey house if upstairs rooms were not built into roof space, ie upstairs had full straight walls. It is not integral as we don't think there is a door leading straight from inside house into garage.

HappyMJ

Spicy_McHaggis wrote: »

It's not integral.

There is a door leading from the rear of the garage to the utility room which leads to the kitchen.

Isn't an integral garage a garage which is part of the main building structure...or it would be a detached garage completely separated from the house.

It's advertised as a traditional semi....so that's what it is.

Not sure I'd pay £270,000 for it though.

DUTR

HappyMJ wrote: »

There is a door leading from the rear of the garage to the utility room which leads to the kitchen.

Isn't an integral garage a garage which is part of the main building structure...or it would be a detached garage completely separated from the house.

It's advertised as a traditional semi....so that's what it is.

Not sure I'd pay £270,000 for it though.

It's sold though, many properties around the area are asking around that price, naturally part of the 'problem' is the postcode that said the rear garden is facing south.

no1catman

I would say 'traditional' refers to the period the house was built. To mind it covers houses of the 30s, 40s, & 50s - they had the bay windows. In the sixties, the fashion was for a different room arrangement, and no 'bays' but flush windows!
I don't believe the way the garage is connected is relevant to the 'traditional' description.


I was brought up in such a traditional semi built in the early thirties, bought an end of terrace (1896), now back into my own traditional semi (1939).


HTHs

Mrs_Imp

comeandgo wrote: »

The half storey is the one upstairs. It would be a two storey house if upstairs rooms were not built into roof space, ie upstairs had full straight walls. It is not integral as we don't think there is a door leading straight from inside house into garage.

This is a 30's house by the looks of it. The ceiling height is roughly at the top of the window. There might be a slight step in the upstairs ceiling of about 6 inches, but not enough to count it as a half-storey.