Design
Designed to a Ministry of Works specification, no-fines houses focused on functional design for family life. There are only a handful of variations in the houses built, and typically all variants are found on each estate:
- 2-bedroom semi-detached and terraced houses
- 3-bedroom semi-detached houses of which there are two styles
- a gable end at both sides of the house
- a sloping hip end at both sides of the house
- Short terraces of 4 or 6 houses, each of which either
- 3-bedroom end or mid-terrace
- 4-bedroom mid-terrace with integral ginnel for rear access
Many examples are accompanied by a single-storey brick-built outbuilding, either in semi-detached arrangement set behind the house, or linking one house to the next.
By today's standards the houses are set in large plots of land intended to allow the occupants to engage in domestic vegetable production. This was achieved through siting in low-cost locations.
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