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The "have a look at this!" thread II

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  • System
    System Posts: 178,094 Community Admin
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    moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »
    True.

    No photo too of the back garden/back yard.

    Is that what "back to back" houses means? - ie that your house's back wall is attached to the back wall of the house in the next road over? I've often wondered....

    That being the house has 3 attached neighbours - instead of the two I would expect in a mid-terrace?

    Loads of back to back houses in Leeds. Those in student housing areas, many are redeveloped with basement - kitchen and living area. Ground floor bedroom and shower room where original kitchen stood. First floor bedroom and bathroom (original rooms) then loft converted into two bedrooms.

    Those houses that don't have a yard in front - front door on pavement, some tenants string their washing on lines between the houses opposite tgem
  • EssexGirl
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    Slinky wrote: »
    No nik-nak shop left unpassed.

    There's a shop down the road from that house, in Swanage that sells a cornucopia of that type of stuff. I think their shelves are now empty!

    Looks like a bed under the pool table too.
  • zagubov
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    lincroft1710 wrote: »
    I came across a maltings in Hertfordshire about 15/20 years ago which was being converted into residential, resulting in back to back houses, all newly converted and relatively expensive.

    In the 1980s/90s before apartments became the only way forward for 1/2 bed starter homes, there quite a few "cluster homes" built, 1 bed in blocks of 4, 2 bed in a "T" block. These were a modern equivalent of "back to back".

    Yep I know of a few places where that occurs in Surrey. They've got more appeal than apartments I suppose (there's no upstairs neighbours clog-dancing/playing the tuba etc). They've got more views/ aspects than a back-to-back and no real gardens (but they're being marketed to people who're not real gardeners).
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  • ashe
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    I did read something a few years ago about a developer trying to make a comeback with it, seems like a horrible idea to me. Terraces are bad enough without robbing you of a back garden and having an extra dimension for noise to come from.
  • zagubov
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    ashe wrote: »
    I did read something a few years ago about a developer trying to make a comeback with it, seems like a horrible idea to me. Terraces are bad enough without robbing you of a back garden and having an extra dimension for noise to come from.

    Doesn't seem like a great idea to me either. Having said that if there's a bigger market for houses than flats, how do we fit them all in without the urban sprawl and concomitant problems that blight the USA and Australia?

    We'd probably be better off with this style of housing for those that can't find suitable flats to live in.
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  • RedFraggle
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    SuperMoose wrote: »
    Back-to-back houses certainly weren't rare although relatively few survived the slum clearences.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-to-back_house
    https://periodhouse.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/back-to-backs.html

    Bradford back-to-backs:
    http://www.bradfordhistorical.org.uk/houses.html

    There are "blind back" terraces too where there isn't another house behnd but there's no back door or outside space at the back. My friend had one in Pudsey.
    In the areas of Leeds where B2Bs are common you'll see "normal" terraces advertised as "through terrace" to distinguish.
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  • ukmaggie45
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    betsie wrote: »
    All I can think of when I look at the pictures is the 100!!!8217;s of boxes they will need to pack it all up.

    Perhaps they're down sizing! :eek: _pale_
  • LisbonLaura
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    Forget dried twigs in vases, now you need the word 'botanic' for value enhancement.
    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-64465117.html
    It's added at least two hundred thousand in this case; unless it's the bunker in pic4 that's done the trick?
  • sheepnik
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    Spot the cat! Rightmove ... property-for-sale/property-69139124.html (I know the link won't work as I'm a new poster, but you should be able to add the text from property-for-sale/ onwards to the standard Rightmove url)

    :rotfl:
  • winspiration
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    sheepnik wrote: »
    Spot the cat! Rightmove ... property-for-sale/property-69139124.html (I know the link won't work as I'm a new poster, but you should be able to add the text from property-for-sale/ onwards to the standard Rightmove url)

    :rotfl:

    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-69139124.html

    Bonus points for spot the estate agent (their legs, anyway!) too :D
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