Corporation terraced houses. A lot of them were built in the 30s upwards.
Far as I am aware and I stand to be corrected, it’s the standard template of house design for council houses that the giv issued at some stage, prop 60s.
The noticeable feature is the windows going up to or very close to the eaves.
I bought it for 70k but I won’t sell it for less than 700k
It’s called inflation look it up, also go back to your country
It’s been years since this was actually a topic of discussion I had when in school but Terraced was the correct term if my memory isn’t skewed.
the rare aul time?
These are all corporation houses built from the 30s to the 70s. I’m a big nerd on council estates and I can say that for sure. The last photo you provided shows the earlier style of corporation house (2 front windows). The design would evolve over time. The others are from the 50s to the 70s. All of these are corporation architecture. They are definitely Dublin, as the further you go into the countryside, the more you see that every local authority has its own sort of style. (For example, cabra in Dublin would be the closest architectural equivalent to ballinacura Weston in Limerick). But yeah, it’s personally my favourite style of architecture here and I’ve always thought it has a charm to it.
Believe image 4 is what is specifically called a “two-up, two-down” style terraced house.
Hibernian Realism.
My house
I think calling it architecture is a bit much. It’s like a childs drawing of what a house looks like
Going against the grain here, terraced houses are awesome. They give you very dense housing, while still being a single family home. You could even have a garden and still be dense enough for a walkable neighbourhood. A lot of the examples you’ve shown also have off street parking!
We should be building fucktonnes of terraced homes like this in every town and city, maybe even making them modular or prefabbed to fire up as many as humanly possible. Bonus points if you put in shop space in a few of them.
Bog standard terraced housing from the 1940/50/60/70s. They were built all over the country and weren’t specifically council houses. My grandparents bought a new build house at the end of a row that looks just like those ones back in the early 50s. My parents live there now. There were a few council houses in the mix, but it was a mostly privately owned estate.
In Ireland it’s just standard terrace housing. If you wanna be more specific I’d say it’s probably something like “mid century conservative* terraced social housing”
*conservative as in conservation of style, not politicalconservative. These buildings look a lot like traditional 2 up 2 down terraced housing common across the UK and Ireland.
Corpo classics
Mid century council.
Poorism
I was genuinely curious what the answer to your question would be, and was disappointed to see nobody had given a satisfactory one; “terraced council housing” being the closest to a proper answer but still not really all that enlightening when you’re asking about architectural movement and not just product type.
I’m afraid I’m not much closer; I can’t find a name for the architectural movement (brutalism being something quite different) but the **era** is “Inter-War”. As in, taking place between the First and Second World Wars.
TBH the consensus seems to be that this type of house is characterized by its LACK of guiding architectural movement; a product of an ethos of pure function over fashion, as the burgeoning political movement towards social welfare meant that the functional standard of housing quality improved dramatically at the expense of any attempt at any particular aesthetic.
As a result, the “style”, such as it is, MIGHT be considered to fall under the umbrella of [“Functionalist”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functionalism_(architecture)), although that movement tends to be more recognizable for its apartments rather than its houses. Still, it’s the best answer I can give you.
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Corporation chic
Council house.
Starting at 700k
Terraced housing
Postwar Corpo
Neo-Council 500k
Terrace
Those are Herbert Simms houses
Council
Bakewell tart
Drabcore
Nanny’s house
60s corpo
Corporate brutalistic
Corporation terraced houses. A lot of them were built in the 30s upwards.
Far as I am aware and I stand to be corrected, it’s the standard template of house design for council houses that the giv issued at some stage, prop 60s.
The noticeable feature is the windows going up to or very close to the eaves.
I bought it for 70k but I won’t sell it for less than 700k
It’s called inflation look it up, also go back to your country
Public housing. From when government did its job.
Ballyfermot Baroque
Council houses.
Corpohaus
Neo-Drimnaghism
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2022/0506/1242953-herbert-simms-dublin-city-housing-architect-profile-ruth-mcmanus/
Looks like Finglas
It’s been years since this was actually a topic of discussion I had when in school but Terraced was the correct term if my memory isn’t skewed.
the rare aul time?
These are all corporation houses built from the 30s to the 70s. I’m a big nerd on council estates and I can say that for sure. The last photo you provided shows the earlier style of corporation house (2 front windows). The design would evolve over time. The others are from the 50s to the 70s. All of these are corporation architecture. They are definitely Dublin, as the further you go into the countryside, the more you see that every local authority has its own sort of style. (For example, cabra in Dublin would be the closest architectural equivalent to ballinacura Weston in Limerick). But yeah, it’s personally my favourite style of architecture here and I’ve always thought it has a charm to it.
Believe image 4 is what is specifically called a “two-up, two-down” style terraced house.
Hibernian Realism.
My house
I think calling it architecture is a bit much. It’s like a childs drawing of what a house looks like
Going against the grain here, terraced houses are awesome. They give you very dense housing, while still being a single family home. You could even have a garden and still be dense enough for a walkable neighbourhood. A lot of the examples you’ve shown also have off street parking!
We should be building fucktonnes of terraced homes like this in every town and city, maybe even making them modular or prefabbed to fire up as many as humanly possible. Bonus points if you put in shop space in a few of them.
Bog standard terraced housing from the 1940/50/60/70s. They were built all over the country and weren’t specifically council houses. My grandparents bought a new build house at the end of a row that looks just like those ones back in the early 50s. My parents live there now. There were a few council houses in the mix, but it was a mostly privately owned estate.
Drimnagh Designed, Crumlin Chic, Tallaght Template?
Cooncil
70s council estate sheik lol
Corpo
Right-click copy;
right-click paste inverted
In Ireland it’s just standard terrace housing. If you wanna be more specific I’d say it’s probably something like “mid century conservative* terraced social housing”
*conservative as in conservation of style, not politicalconservative. These buildings look a lot like traditional 2 up 2 down terraced housing common across the UK and Ireland.
Corpo classics
Mid century council.
Poorism
I was genuinely curious what the answer to your question would be, and was disappointed to see nobody had given a satisfactory one; “terraced council housing” being the closest to a proper answer but still not really all that enlightening when you’re asking about architectural movement and not just product type.
I’m afraid I’m not much closer; I can’t find a name for the architectural movement (brutalism being something quite different) but the **era** is “Inter-War”. As in, taking place between the First and Second World Wars.
[https://www.transforminghomes.org.uk/inter-war-housing-as-architectural-heritage/](https://www.transforminghomes.org.uk/inter-war-housing-as-architectural-heritage/)
TBH the consensus seems to be that this type of house is characterized by its LACK of guiding architectural movement; a product of an ethos of pure function over fashion, as the burgeoning political movement towards social welfare meant that the functional standard of housing quality improved dramatically at the expense of any attempt at any particular aesthetic.
As a result, the “style”, such as it is, MIGHT be considered to fall under the umbrella of [“Functionalist”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functionalism_(architecture)), although that movement tends to be more recognizable for its apartments rather than its houses. Still, it’s the best answer I can give you.
Council Houses
Corpo chic.
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