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1930
s
House Style
Typically retro in Tudor/Elizabethan style
Half timbered - a mix of red brick and pebbledash
Houses were smaller
Most had a front room leading to a hall, sometimes a second sitting room and a kitchen
Upstairs were two large bedrooms, a third much smaller room and a bathroom and toilet.
Bungalows or chalet-style houses with bedrooms in the roof were popular.
Frontage often contained herringbone brickwork
Windows often diamond-shaped leaded panes
Front doors with leading and stained glass in top third
Herringbone dark oak parquet flooring
Lots of plastic, glass and chrome
Typically retro in Tudor/Elizabethan style
Bungalows or chalet-style houses with bedrooms in the roof were popular
Half timbered - a mix of red brick and pebbledash
Windows often diamond-shaped leaded pane
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How to date your house
House Styles
Tudor
Elizabethan, Jacobean & Stuart
Georgian
Regency
Victorian
Edwardian
Arts & Crafts 1880 - 1914
Art Deco 1918- 1935
1930s
1950s
Model Villages
Model Villages list
How Old is My Amercian House?
Colonial
Romantic
Victorian Style
Colonial Revival
Revival
Spanish Colonial Revival
Arts & Crafts
Modernist
Architectural Terms