Noddy housing


Noddy housing is commercially built housing of low build quality or design merit.
Noddy houses are typically small homes on narrow plots of land built since the early 1990s by large property development companies. They are normally considered to be far less spacious than homes built in preceding decades of the 20th century and are perceived as being poorly executed architecturally and aesthetically.
, Hampshire. Note roof construction being of 45° standard trusses with apparently unnecessary smaller gables.

Design and appearance

Noddy houses usually appear to tip towards traditional ideals of British house-building through use of brick and masonry detail, gabled and hipped roof forms, and window and door styles derived from older methods of construction. Because of the commerciality of volume house-building and the desire for companies to cut costs in construction, these elements suffer - with bricks being less attractive and mass-produced kinds, and windows and doors being standardised models of non-traditional uPVC and fibreglass with only suggestions of traditional detail by way of fake 'integral' glazing bars or sometimes imitation lead came.