Types

of houses

British

culture & thoughts (houses)

British

housing development

British

houses VS Spanish houses

Real

interview

Houses

of some famous British

personalities

What is the name of

these houses?
THEY ARE FLATS

Do British people like to

live in FLATS?

What is the name of

these houses?
THEY ARE FLATS

Do British people like to

live in FLATS?
THE LEAST DESIRABLE

Where
FLATS?

can

we

find

What is the name of

these houses?
THEY ARE FLATS

Do British people like to

live in flats?
THE LEAST DESIRABLE

Where
FLATS?

can

we

find

CITIES &BIG TOWNS

What kind of people do
you think live in FLATS?

What is the name of

these houses?
THEY ARE FLATS

Do British people like to

live in FLATS?
THE LEAST DESIRABLE

Where
FLATS?

can

we

find

CITIES &BIG TOWNS

What kind of people do
you think live in FLATS?
POOR PEOPLE

What is the name of these houses?

TERRACED HOUSES
Do British people like to live in TERRACED
HOUSES?

What is the name of these houses?

TERRACED HOUSES
Do British people like to live in TERRACED
HOUSES?
NOT VERY DESIRABLE
Where can we find TERRACED HOUSES?

What is the name of these houses?

TERRACED HOUSES
Do British people like to live in TERRACED
HOUSES?
NOT VERY DESIRABLE
Where can we find TERRACED HOUSES?
TOWNS AND CITIES
What kind of people do you think live in
TERRACED HOUSES?

What is the name of these houses?

TERRACED HOUSES
Do British people like to live in TERRACED HOUSES?
NOT VERY DESIRABLE
Where can we find TERRACED HOUSES?
TOWNS AND CITIES
What kind of people do you think live in
TERRACED HOUSES?
AVERAGE FAMILIES

What is the name of these houses?

SEMI-DETACHED HOUSES
Do British people like to live in SEMI-DETACHED
HOUSES?

What is the name of these houses?

SEMI-DETACHED HOUSES
Do British people like to live in SEMI-DETACHED
HOUSES?
ONE OF MOST DESIRABLE
Where can we find SEMI-DETACHED HOUSES?

What is the name of these houses?

SEMI-DETACHED HOUSES
Do British people like to live in SEMI-DETACHED
HOUSES?
ONE OF THE MOST DESIRABLE
Where can we find SEMI-DETACHED HOUSES?
SUBURBS OF CITIES AND OUTSKIRTS OF TOWNS
What kind of people do you think live in
TERRACED HOUSES?

What is the name of these houses?

SEMI-DETACHED HOUSES
Do British people like to live in SEMI-DETACHED
HOUSES?
ONE OF THE MOST DESIRABLE
Where can we find SEMI-DETACHED HOUSES?
SUBURBS OF CITIES AND OUTSKIRTS OF TOWNS
What kind of people do you think live in SEMIDETACHED HOUSES?
WELL-OFF PEOPLE

What is the name of these houses?

DETACHED HOUSES
Do British people like to live in DETACHED
HOUSES?

What is the name of these houses?

DETACHED HOUSES
Do British people like to live in DETACHED
HOUSES?
THE MOST DESIRABLE
Where can we find DETACHED HOUSES?

What is the name of these houses?

DETACHED HOUSES
Do British people like to live in DETACHED
HOUSES?
THE MOST DESIRABLE
Where can we find DETACHED HOUSES?
SUBURBS AND COMMUTER BELT
What kind of people do you think live in
DETACHED HOUSES?

What is the name of these houses?

DETACHED HOUSES
Do British people like to live in DETACHED
HOUSES?
THE MOST DESIRABLE
Where can we find DETACHED HOUSES?
SUBURBS AND COMMUTER BELT
What kind of people do you think live in
DETACHED HOUSES?
RICH PEOPLE

What is the name of these houses?

COTTAGES
Do British people like to live in COTTAGES?

What is the name of these houses?

COTTAGES
Do British people like to live in COTTAGES?
HAPPY LIVING IN A COTTAGE
Where can we find COTTAGES?

What is the name of these houses?

COTTAGES
Do British people like to live in COTTAGES?
HAPPY LIVING IN A COTTAGE
Where can we find COTTAGES?
COUNTRYSIDE
What kind of people do you think live in
COTTAGES?

What is the name of these houses?

COTTAGES
Do British people like to live in COTTAGES?
HAPPY LIVING IN A COTTAGE
Where can we find COTTAGES?
COUNTRYSIDE
What kind of people do you think live in
COTTAGES?
WELL-OFF / RICH PEOPLE

What is the name of these houses?

STATELY HOMES
Do British people like to live in STATELY
HOMES?

What is the name of these houses?

STATELY HOMES
Do British people like to live in STATELY
HOMES?
UNREALISTIC DREAM
Where can we find STATELY HOMES?

What is the name of these houses?

STATELY HOMES
Do British people like to live in STATELY HOMES?
UNREALISTIC DREAM
Where can we find STATELY HOMES?
COUNTRYSIDE
What kind of people do you think live in
STATELY HOMES?

What is the name of these houses?

STATELY HOMES
Do British people like to live in STATELY HOMES?
UNREALISTIC DREAM
Where can we find STATELY HOMES?
COUNTRYSIDE
What kind of people do you think live in
STATELY HOMES?
ARISTOCRATIC PEOPLE

Which of the
following
features do
British culture
belong to?

Private property and public property.

Communal life.
The importance of home.
Fashionable houses.
Only
four
Individuality.
aspects.
Bad taste of houses.
The importance of coziness

Castle of Eileen Donan (Scotland)

Reception
room.

The purposes of a house nowadays

Several rooms:
kitchen, living
room, bathroom

Facilities: running
water, electricity

security

Celtic

Roman

Saxon

500 BC

AD 43

450

Viking
793

Tudor

Georgian

Victorian

Today

1485

1714

1837

1990 +

1.

They all lived in one room.

2.

Round houses.

3.

They used to light a fire in the middle of

the house to cook or to keep warm.
Materials: big stones or wattle and daub.

4.

1.
2.

3.
4.

Romans were very good builders: they

designed the villa.
Only rich people(1% of the population)
lived in the villa, the rest lived in celtic
houses.
very confortable: running water and
heated rooms.
Materials: stone and tile.

One house per family: grandparents,

parents, children and babies.
2. each house had one room, with a fire
to cook and to keep warm.
3. It took about 18 trees to provide enough
wood to build a Saxon house.
4. Materials: wood.
1.

Bigger than Saxon houses.

2. Poor people: only one room. Rich
people: several rooms.
3. Family possessions were kept in wooden
chests, locked with padlocks.
4. Materials: wood, stones or blocks of turf.
1.

1.
2.
3.

Innovations: windows glass, wooden

pannels.
It took up more than 30 trees to build a
tudor house.
Very large houses.

Harmony and symmetry

2. Airiness, space and light
3. Pale colour schemes and woodwork
4. Delicate furniture
1.

1.
2.

3.

The typical terraced house we can see

in England is a Victorian house.
houses for poor people (very small) and
houses for rich people (with space even
for servants).
Materials: bricks.

British or Spanish? Why?

British or Spanish? Why?

Dining room. (family reunions, celebration

weekends or supper with friends)

Carpet.

Why they use carpet?

Because of the wheather

Idea of cozines
Isolate noises

 British

or Spanish?
Why?

 British

or Spanish?
Why?

NEVER

 British

or Spanish?
Why?

 British

or Spanish?
Why?

WINDOWS without
blinds or grilles.