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New Houses with fake windows

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2 January 2022 at 7:38PM in House buying, renting & selling

There's some new build houses near me with these.

Are they supposed to be some sort of style or a change of plan during the build?

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Racky_Roo Posts: 391 Forumite

2 January 2022 at 7:51PM

Supposed to be there. It's so it doesn't look like a big expanse of imposing brick wall with nothing in it. The second picture probably has a car port so no windows and would look odd with just a plain brick wall, although so does the bricked up style IMO

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TripleH Posts: 3,188 Forumite

2 January 2022 at 8:01PM

I sort of hope for a monumental mess up by the builders, the alternative is a new window tax...

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user1977 Posts: 17,256 Forumite

2 January 2022 at 8:05PM

Any floor plans? As above I expect the second one is garaging on the ground floor.

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RelievedSheff Posts: 12,560 Forumite

2 January 2022 at 8:19PM

They are usually to replicate tax windows in the local architecture.

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davilown Posts: 2,303 Forumite

2 January 2022 at 8:19PM

Looks like an apartment over car ports or garages - quite normal in developments lately. Probs a leasehold property as well

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SpiderLegs Posts: 1,914 Forumite

2 January 2022 at 10:10PM

Well they look ****ing dreadful.

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Norman_Castle Posts: 11,871 Forumite

2 January 2022 at 10:22PM

They're an architectural feature.

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theartfullodger Posts: 15,562 Forumite

2 January 2022 at 11:02PM

Look up window tax

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Amixo3032 Posts: 93 Forumite

2 January 2022 at 11:07PM

Looks vile

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Doozergirl Posts: 34,057 Forumite

2 January 2022 at 11:27PM

Norman_Castle said:

They're an architectural feature.

Apparently. The bar is set about as low as it gets there.

Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.

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