I live in an Edwardian terrace so that’s the style I’m most used to.
https://www.thespruce.com/edwardian-house-7496839
That is probably my favourite though it has drawbacks, such as being less well insulated than newbuilds.
I do think, though some have tried to rehabilitate postwar styles (John Grindrod makes a good case for them, for instance) that in the 1950s and 1960s, there were too many old buildings which should have been restored, but were simply knocked down, and replaced with things that are now even more out of date than the Victorian and Edwardian buildings.
I was in Nottingham and went past the B-road Marsh shopping centre, which was built in 1968-72 and demolished in 2020-21. Basically, it should never have been built, and if the old buildings had been renovated, they would now be sought after, instead of the rubble (the city council has since gone bankrupt, so it isn’t even fully demolished).
So, while some newbuilds can be good and I like some of the very new blocks of flats built since 2000, we should also cherish the old buildings that can be used as civic buildings and family homes, instead of taking the postwar wrecking ball approach to them.
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