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You bought a house without being sure what era it was even from?
Ballsy.
https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en/Manchester ?
A 60s house could well have floorboards but they would look different to Victorian floorboards which are quite distinctive. One reason for this is that due to the Victorian building boom there was a pine shortage, so a lot of pine was shipped over from Canada. Working out what sort of pine you've got might therefore shed some light.
I also suspect some 60s houses were built with fireplaces. You'd be better off looking for distinctively Victorian building methods but it might just be easier to look at old maps and see when your place first existed.
Fox-
A lot of 60s houses were built with fireplaces as central heating was still a bit of a luxery. In 1970 only 30% of houses had central heating rising to 59% in 1980 and 79% in 1990.
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That's a very interesting link, thanks.
Our survey suggested that our house is from the 1930s, but a house with the exact same footprint pops up between 1895 and 1908 and is unchanged on the 1930 map. How accurate is the science of dating houses from visual features alone?
Bobbo
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Couple of Questions:
Just bought my first home, an old red brick terrace in Manchester, I noticed that it has the road name on it but it’s missing some bits of the lettering is this something that I can get the council to spruce up? (Very unlikely I guess) if not I might just try and do it myself.
On the paper work from the sale it’s stated that it’s a 60’s house, but that doesn’t quite feel right, there’s evidence of fire places in the living room as well as one in the dining room, and main bedroom, and it’s also got floorboards throughout which I would assume a more modern house wouldn’t have downstairs? How do I go about verifying a build era/date?