2 front doors… Why?

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1. Probably they have been converted into two apartments, one door is for the apartment on the ground floor the other is the door for the apartment on the top floor. Used to live in something similar myself, although in London rather than Manchester

2. We lived on an RAF base a few years back, Our houses looked to have two front doors. One opened into the hall/stairs/sitting room, the other opened into the kitchen and ‘utility’ area – but there was nothing in between to separate them. It just caused us a mini dilemma on where to up the Christmas wreath, so we put one on each.

3. I’ve seen this in an estate in Sheffield. Maybe the same company designed them all? One Main front door that opens to the stairwell and living room, one front door opens to a utility/coal store, and one back door.

4. Seen a few houses like this around Manchester..

   It’s because the kitchen is at the front. In a traditional house with a kitchen at the back you’d have a back door in the kitchen I guess, and for some reason the architects decided you still needed one, despite it being at the front… Only thing I can think of is to take the rubbish out without walking through the house maybe?

   It gets really complicated when you ask what people call that door. Near here, some people called it the back door still..

5. I know in our old council house, there was originally a door hole that was open and had another, heavier internal, lockable door.
   I.e. maybe it was originally did not have one of the external doors on?

6. In our old house it used to be that the second door opened into a small room which had coal delivered into it – the delivery would use the second door and this kept the coal dust from being in the main part of the house. The entire estate eventually updated when coal deliveries were no longer a thing. Many knocked through the room to become a larger kitchen/diner which it sounds like happened in your estate. In ours, many kept the separate room but replaced the door with a window.

7. Mud room. One door is the ‘front door’ which likely leads into an area like the front hallway or living room area, the other will lead through to a utility room or kitchen where you can take off muddy boots/shoes or other wet clothes and stop you getting mud through the rest of the house.

8. I worked in a house in Putney, London that had two doors. The owners had bought the house next door and knocked it through in to one house. The council wouldn’t allow them to remove the door to mess up the look of the street.

9. I live in one like that. Not sure what the original idea was, but the side door goes into our laundry area and kitchen, which then connects to our front room, hallway and front door.

   We don’t use our side door unless we are putting something in the bin from the kitchen.

10. Some houses are built like this. Door one opens into a downstairs flat, and door two opens into a separate staircase that leads to an upstairs flat. They might be conversions or purpose built, I’m not sure

11. There’s a few houses like that near me. One leads into the main hallway where the stairs are, the other into a utility room that goes through into the kitchen, or in some cases directly into the kitchen.

    I actually have no idea why, as these houses also have doors from the lounge out into the back garden, so they have a back door too! (Otherwise I’d have said maybe fire regs.)

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