Yes, this is the Dursley’s house from Harry Potter. However, I have seen houses that look just like it, with the same brick patterns and tile colours, in completely different places. Is there a name for this style of house, and was it linked to a certain time period?
Don’t mind the magic owls
Not *really*. It’s a sort of stripped-back 80s version of [Stockbroker Tudor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockbroker's_Tudor) or Mock Tudor, themselves cheap and repetitive versions of more accomplished Tudor Revival buildings.
The only real hints at an architectural style are the latticed windows and vaguely cottagey porch.
Hitchcockian
Brookside-closeian
Modern link…at least the term for house-garage-house-garage… Its basically 1970s terracing!
1980s new housing estate. It’s not even mock Tudor, it’s just mass market.
I swear we had this exact post a few months ago? I might be going mad.
there’s a house in this pic?
Barratts and Redrow who were major builders in the 90s which is about when I think built used “Classical” and “Heritage” for the style as it aped older styles with modern bricks.
Didn’t know Harry Potter was growing in the attic.
Link-detached.
“Link detached” if you’re referring to mostly detached houses joined by a garage.
Birdemian
I think that’s a chain restaurant called Hooters.
Unaffordabullshit
Owls.
“New build” even though they’re old
At this time of year when there are lots of birds on roosting warmly on the roof the style is usually called “grow-op”
There was only a couple of major developers building cookie-cutter estates across the UK in the 90s, so you get a lot of this. Not dissimilar to every 50s-60s council estate looking them same, except these were for-profit instead.
I’d guess their use in the movie was precisely *because* they’re so middle-class average.
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Yes, this is the Dursley’s house from Harry Potter. However, I have seen houses that look just like it, with the same brick patterns and tile colours, in completely different places. Is there a name for this style of house, and was it linked to a certain time period?
Don’t mind the magic owls
Not *really*. It’s a sort of stripped-back 80s version of [Stockbroker Tudor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockbroker's_Tudor) or Mock Tudor, themselves cheap and repetitive versions of more accomplished Tudor Revival buildings.
The only real hints at an architectural style are the latticed windows and vaguely cottagey porch.
Hitchcockian
Brookside-closeian
Modern link…at least the term for house-garage-house-garage… Its basically 1970s terracing!
1980s new housing estate. It’s not even mock Tudor, it’s just mass market.
I swear we had this exact post a few months ago? I might be going mad.
there’s a house in this pic?
Barratts and Redrow who were major builders in the 90s which is about when I think built used “Classical” and “Heritage” for the style as it aped older styles with modern bricks.
Didn’t know Harry Potter was growing in the attic.
Link-detached.
“Link detached” if you’re referring to mostly detached houses joined by a garage.
Birdemian
I think that’s a chain restaurant called Hooters.
Unaffordabullshit
Owls.
“New build” even though they’re old
At this time of year when there are lots of birds on roosting warmly on the roof the style is usually called “grow-op”
https://preview.redd.it/nw5or1bq5x1g1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2ea7fad77ae2463603fdaf8cdc5bc56827281d0a
That’s a LOT of drones.
r/BirdsArentReal
There was only a couple of major developers building cookie-cutter estates across the UK in the 90s, so you get a lot of this. Not dissimilar to every 50s-60s council estate looking them same, except these were for-profit instead.
I’d guess their use in the movie was precisely *because* they’re so middle-class average.
In parts of London, it’s called 700k for a box.
Owlly crap!
No post on Sundays
Parliament Style /S
No-Post-modern
FATTY OWLS
Scrotelothian
Brhoootalist
Little Whinging.
I would call it a Broseley Estate house
Pottercore
Birdhouse
Where’s the birds?
https://youtu.be/XUwUp-D_VV0
Fictional?
Owld English
Bird
Ubiquitous and crap
Hitchcockian….
Shithouse. I lived in two identical ones in different cities.
In america they are called cookie cutter houses.
owl’ey bad design?
I’ll grab my coat.
Nest
The green farmer
birb
Rabb ithutch
I was watching this last night on itv2
is that harry’s uncle vernon’s house