Types of House Construction in Britain Today

Types of House Construction in Britain Today

House construction today does not face the constraints seen over the years, where construction type was dictated by locally available materials. Today’s infrastructure and manufacturing allows for the building of almost any type of housing in almost any locality across the country.

Solid stone buildings are a rarity in construction today, with the abundance and availability of modern materials superseding stone, but the tradition goes on in limited forms, with local materials emphasising the regional styles, such as flint in north Norfolk, or granite stone on the higher grounds of the north and west.

Cobb construction, now a rather niche building method in the Continue reading “Types of House Construction in Britain Today”