most houses are built of brick with a tiled roof, though some, especially in the country are built of stone. the largest and most expensive type of house is a detached house, which is not joined to other house and has a garden all round it. Detached houses have at least three bedroom and one or two bathroom upstairs, and one or more living room plus a separate dinning room and kitchen downstairs. Many large Victorian houses with three or four floors or storeys have now been converted into several flats.
semi-detached houses, or semi, are extremely common. They are built in pair with one house joined to the other a long one side. there is a separate garden at the front and the back for each houses.
Terraced house date form Victorian and Edwardian time (the late 19th and early 20th century) and were built mainly for working-class people. Four or more houses are jointed together in a row. There is little or no front garden so the front door of each house open onto the pavement. Access to in back garden is trough the house. Terraced house were originally quite small. They had to bed rooms, a sitting room and kitchen/dining room, an a apartment called 'two up, two down'. Most have now been extended and bathroom added , and in some towns they have become fashionable with professional people.