Noddy housing

Noddy housing (sometimes called "Noddy Box Housing"[1] or "Shoddy Noddy Boxes"[2]) is commercially built housing of low build quality or design merit.[3][4] Noddy houses are typically small homes on narrow plots of land built since the early 1990s by large property development companies. They are normally considered to be far less spacious than homes built in preceding decades of the 20th century and are perceived as being poorly executed architecturally and aesthetically.

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Cul-de-Sac of relatively plain 'Noddy Houses' in Aldershot, Hampshire. Note roof construction being of 45° standard trusses (yet allowing internal volume to be wasted by not being in use as habitable space) with apparently unnecessary smaller gables.

Design and appearance

Noddy houses usually appear to tip towards traditional ideals of British housebuilding through use of brick and masonry detail, gabled and hipped roof forms and window and doors styles derived from older methods of construction. Because of the commerciality of volume housebuilding and the desire for companies to cut costs in construction, these elements suffer - with bricks being less attractive and mass-produced kinds, and windows and doors being standardised models of non-traditional PVC-u and fibreglass with only suggestions of traditional detail by way of fake 'integral' glazing bars or sometimes imitation lead came.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Beacom, Brian (1 July 2009), "'Noddy box' housing would be banned in Wayne's world", The Herald, retrieved 1 June 2010
  2. ↑ "In praise of ... ideal homes", The Guardian, 27 July 2007, retrieved 1 June 2010
  3. ↑ Hetherington, Peter (21 October 2003), "Prescott to outlaw 'Noddy' housing", The Guardian, retrieved 1 June 2010
  4. ↑ Davis, Colin (2005), The Prefabricated Home, Reaktion Books, p. 162, ISBN 1-86189-243-8

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