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Homes put together on site from concrete panels, posts or blocks made in a factory. 130 house types, each with how it was built, what to look out for and what it means when you buy.

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Precast concrete The Adams H1 House The Adams H1 house is a precast concrete, system-built house from the 1940s, designed to address the UK's post-war housing shortage. It was part of the wider move towards… 5 min read Flettons Photograph to follow Precast concrete The Adams HVA3 House The Adams HVA3 house is a system-built house developed after the Second World War in response to the urgent need for housing. Traditional construction was too slow and… 4 min read Precast concrete The Airey House The Airey house is a prefabricated, precast concrete house from the period immediately after the Second World War, built between 1945 and 1955. It was designed by Frederick… 6 min read Precast concrete The Alcrete House The Alcrete house is a prefabricated house of foamed precast concrete panels and aluminium from the 1940s, built in response to the urgent need for housing after the Second World… 6 min read Flettons Photograph to follow Precast concrete The AMcK House The AMcK house is a system-built house from the 1960s, combining precast concrete cross walls with timber frame front and rear walls. It was manufactured by Cementation Co. Ltd… 6 min read Precast concrete The Anglia Type A House The Anglia Type A house is a system-built house of the 1960s, also known as the Anglian, GLC Anglia and Taylor-Woodrow Anglian. It was manufactured by Taylor Woodrow-Anglian and… 6 min read Flettons Photograph to follow Precast concrete The Argyll House The Argyll house is a precast concrete bungalow built between 1947 and 1950, manufactured by Argyll Concrete Products Ltd and designed by J Thompson. Only ten were built, as… 5 min read Flettons Photograph to follow Precast concrete The Atlas Stone House The Atlas Stone house is a precast concrete, semi-detached bungalow from the 1950s. It was designed by the Atlas Stone Co. and manufactured by Dartford Builders Ltd, and it was… 5 min read Precast concrete The Ayrshire County Council House The Ayrshire County Council house is a precast reinforced concrete (PRC) framed house built between 1945 and 1954, mainly to address the acute housing shortage that followed the… 6 min read

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Precast concrete The Balency House The Balency house is a system-built type constructed mainly in the 1960s and 1970s, when there was a pressing need for rapid, cost-effective housing to address the post-war… 5 min read Flettons Photograph to follow Precast concrete The Balfour Beatty House The Balfour Beatty house is a precast reinforced concrete (PRC) house built mainly in the 1940s, during the severe housing shortage after the Second World War. It was both… 5 min read Precast concrete The Bates 4L House The Bates 4L house, often referred to simply as the 4L, is a system-built property type developed in the UK during the 1960s and 1970s. Designed by T Bates & Sons and manufactured… 4 min read Precast concrete The BCCF House The BCCF house is a precast reinforced concrete house from the 1940s, manufactured by the British Cast Concrete Federation, a key organisation in the construction industry of the… 6 min read Precast concrete The BDG House The BDG house, also known as the BDG Wessex or simply the Wessex, is a mixed precast concrete and timber frame house built in 1965. It was manufactured by the Basingstoke… 5 min read Precast concrete The Beanland No. 2 House The Beanland No. 2 house is a precast concrete house built in the 1940s, when the aftermath of the Second World War had left a significant housing shortage and rapid… 6 min read Precast concrete The Belfry House The Belfry house, also known as the Belcon, is a precast reinforced concrete (PRC) system-built house from the 1960s and 1970s. It was designed by the architects Maxwell Fry and… 5 min read Precast concrete The Bellrock House The Bellrock house is a system-built house from the 1940s, a period of significant demand for housing driven by the shortage after the Second World War. It was one of many… 6 min read Flettons Photograph to follow Precast concrete The Bison Crosswall House The Bison Crosswall house is a system-built house with precast concrete cross walls, built from the 1960s onwards in response to the post-war housing shortage, as part of a… 6 min read Precast concrete The Bison Wall Frame House The Bison Wall Frame house, also known as the Bryant or Bryant Wall Frame house, is a system-built type from the 1960s and 1970s. It belongs to the move towards prefabricated… 6 min read Precast concrete The Blackburn House The Blackburn house is a precast concrete house designed by J Blackburn and built in 1946, in the immediate post-war period, when the demand for housing led to a range of new… 5 min read Precast concrete The Blackburn Orlit House The Blackburn Orlit house is a precast reinforced concrete framed house built between 1950 and 1952, during the severe housing shortage that followed the Second World War. It was… 5 min read Precast concrete The Boot Beaucrete House The Boot Beaucrete house is a precast reinforced concrete (PRC) house built in 1939, as the UK stood on the brink of the Second World War. Only two were ever built. Henry Boot &… 5 min read Precast concrete The Boot Pier and Panel House The Boot Pier and Panel house, often called simply the Boot house, is a system-built precast reinforced concrete (PRC) house constructed between 1910 and 1930 by Henry Boot & Sons… 6 min read Precast concrete The Broadmead House The Broadmead house is a precast reinforced concrete (PRC) bungalow from the 1940s. It was manufactured by Broadmead Products Ltd and designed by B W H Scott, and it was one of… 5 min read Precast concrete The BRS L-Shaped Panels House The BRS L-shaped panels house, also known as the Modus house, is a precast reinforced concrete (PRC) panel house from the 1970s. It was designed by BRS and T K Powell and… 5 min read Precast concrete The Building Systems Ltd House The Building Systems Ltd house is a system-built house with a precast concrete frame and timber frame walls, built between 1964 and 1967 during a period of rapid post-war… 6 min read

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Precast concrete The Camus House The Camus house is a system-built type from the 1960s, developed in response to the post-war housing shortage. It was designed to be assembled quickly from prefabricated… 5 min read Precast concrete The Carlton House The Carlton house is a precast concrete, system-built house from a period of rapid reconstruction, built between 1965 and the late 1960s. It was designed by R Pianca with Carlton… 5 min read Flettons Photograph to follow Precast concrete The Channello House The Channello house is a precast concrete block house from the 1920s, manufactured by Channello Construction Co. and designed by the architects Hepworth & Wornum. It was built… 5 min read Precast concrete The Cheecol Keeland House The Cheecol Keeland house is a lightweight precast reinforced concrete (PRC) house built in 1948, during the severe housing shortage after the Second World War. Only six were… 6 min read Precast concrete The Concept 4 House The Concept 4 house, also known simply as "Concept", is a system-built house from the 1960s, a period of significant demand for affordable, quickly built housing. It was designed… 5 min read Precast concrete The Cornish Flush Panel House The Cornish Flush Panel house is a system-built, prefabricated concrete bungalow from the 1960s, a period of strong demand for affordable housing that could be put up quickly. The… 5 min read Precast concrete The Cornish Unit Type 1 House The Cornish Unit Type 1 house is a form of non-traditional post-war housing developed in response to acute shortages following the Second World War. These properties were… 4 min read Precast concrete The Cornish Unit Type II House The Cornish Unit Type II house is a post-war precast reinforced concrete (PRC) house, built between 1954 and the mid-1960s to meet the urgent housing need of the period… 5 min read Precast concrete The Cosmos House The Cosmos house is a system-built, precast reinforced concrete (PRC) house dating from 1970. It was designed by C Davidson and manufactured by the Consortium of Selected… 5 min read Flettons Photograph to follow Precast concrete The Costain House The Costain house is a system-built type from the 1950s, one of the answers to the urgent post-war demand for housing that could be built rapidly. It was manufactured by Costain… 5 min read Precast concrete The Crosby House The Crosby house is a precast concrete, system-built bungalow from the 1940s, built to meet the demand for affordable housing after the Second World War. It was manufactured by J… 5 min read

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Precast concrete The Hamish Cross Type 1 House The Hamish Cross Type 1 house is an early twentieth-century precast reinforced concrete (PRC) house, designed to address the housing shortages that arose during and after the… 5 min read Precast concrete The Hamish Cross Type II House The Hamish Cross Type II house is a precast reinforced concrete (PRC) house designed by Hamish Cross and manufactured by Abdon Clee Stone Quarry. The houses were built from 1915… 5 min read Flettons Photograph to follow Precast concrete The Hardy House The Hardy house is a precast concrete house from the 1920s, designed and manufactured by T E Hardy. It was built during the housing boom that followed the First World War, when… 5 min read Precast concrete The HDC House The HDC house, also known as Housing Development & Construction or IDC, is a system-built, precast concrete house from the 1960s, a decade when there was a pressing need for… 6 min read Precast concrete The Hertsmere Special House The Hertsmere Special house is a post-war system-built type, part of the wider effort to address the UK housing shortage in the mid-twentieth century. Little about its origins is… 5 min read Precast concrete The Hexham Special House The Hexham Special house is a precast reinforced concrete (PRC) house built in the 1920s, a period of significant advances in building technology and materials. Only six are known… 5 min read Precast concrete The Howells House The Howells house is a precast concrete block house from the 1920s, designed and manufactured by E O C Howells. It was built during the housing boom that followed the First World… 6 min read Precast concrete The HSSB House The HSSB (High Speed System Building) house, also known as the Lindsay Parkinson house, is a precast concrete system house from the mid-1960s. It was manufactured by SLP… 5 min read

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Precast concrete The Mac-Girling House The Mac-Girling house is a system-built, precast concrete house from the 1940s, built in response to the urgent need for housing in post-war Britain as part of a wider move to… 6 min read Precast concrete The Malthouse House The Malthouse house was manufactured by W Malthouse Ltd and designed by the Sheffield City Architect. The houses were built mainly in the 1940s and 1950s, when demand for housing… 6 min read Precast concrete The Marley House The Marley house is a system-built bungalow constructed between 1964 and 1973, a period of significant demand for housing in the UK and of system-built types designed to be… 5 min read Precast concrete The MeTraCon House The MeTraCon house is a system-built house combining precast concrete and timber frame panels, designed and manufactured by Selleck, Nicholls & Williams Ltd over a fifteen-year… 5 min read Precast concrete The MFC House The MFC house, also known as MFC Housing, is a precast concrete (PC) panel house from the 1960s. It was manufactured by F C Precast Concrete Ltd and W Moss & Sons Ltd, and… 6 min read Precast concrete The Minniel House The Minniel house, also known as the Love house, is a system-built precast reinforced concrete (PRC) house from the 1920s. It was manufactured by W W Love & Sons, a company known… 5 min read Precast concrete The MOD Special House The MOD Special house is a precast reinforced concrete (PRC) semi-detached bungalow designed by the Ministry of Defence and built in the 1940s. Only 43 were built. They were part… 5 min read Precast concrete The Modus House The Modus house is a precast concrete, system-built house from the late 1960s. It was manufactured by The Amey Chivers Housing Co. Ltd and designed by Alex Robertson, Peter… 6 min read Precast concrete The Morrell House The Morrell house, also known as the Bradley house, is a precast reinforced concrete (PRC) house from the 1940s, a period of post-war reconstruction. It was designed by K Morrell… 6 min read Precast concrete The Myton House The Myton house is a system-built type manufactured by Myton Ltd between the 1940s and 1954. It emerged after the Second World War, when the UK faced a severe housing shortage and… 6 min read

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Precast concrete The SB2 House The SB2 house, also known as the Sawston SB2 or Wales Sindall, is a precast concrete, system-built house from the mid-1960s. It was designed by C Davidson and manufactured by… 6 min read Precast concrete The Simplified Brickwork House The Simplified Brickwork house, also known as the Davis house, was built in the UK between 1934 and the 1950s, a period shaped by the aftermath of the Great Depression and the… 6 min read Precast concrete The Siporex 6M House The Siporex 6M house is a system-built type from the 1960s, manufactured by R Costain (Construction) Ltd and also known as the Costain or Siporex house. It belongs to the wider… 6 min read Precast concrete The Skarne House The Skarne house is a precast concrete, system-built house from the 1960s, built to address the UK's housing shortage with efficiency and low cost in mind. It was designed by… 5 min read Precast concrete The Smith House The Smith house is a precast reinforced concrete house built between 1945 and 1955. It was manufactured by Smith's Building Systems, and approximately 4,500 were built. The type… 5 min read Precast concrete The SNW House The SNW house takes its name from Selleck Nicholls & Williams, who both designed and manufactured it. It is a precast concrete (PC) panel house built in the 1960s, a period of… 6 min read Precast concrete The Spacemaker House The Spacemaker house is a system-built precast reinforced concrete house built in the UK between 1959 and 1970. It was both designed and manufactured by the Shepherd Building… 6 min read Precast concrete The Stent House The Stent house is a precast reinforced concrete (PRC) system-built house from the years immediately after the Second World War. Around 1,250 were built between 1946 and 1955… 6 min read Precast concrete The Stewart & Partners Type I House The Stewart & Partners Type I house is a precast reinforced concrete (PRC) house from the 1920s, designed and manufactured by Stewart & Partners Ltd. It was built at a time of… 5 min read Precast concrete The Stewart & Partners Type II House The Stewart & Partners Type II house dates from the 1940s, the period immediately after the Second World War when extensive war damage created a pressing need for rapid housing… 5 min read Precast concrete The Stonecrete House Stonecrete houses were built from 1934 onwards, at a time when the UK was exploring new construction methods to address housing shortages. They were manufactured by the British… 6 min read Precast concrete The Stubbings Industrialised House The Stubbings Industrialised house is a precast concrete, system-built house from the 1960s, part of the wider move towards system building to meet the housing shortage. It was… 5 min read

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Precast concrete The Ulster Cottage House The Ulster Cottage house, also known as the Orlit, is a precast reinforced concrete house built in the 1940s and 1950s, mainly to address the housing shortage that followed the… 5 min read Precast concrete The Underdown House The Underdown house was built between 1926 and 1927, manufactured by F Underdown Ltd and designed by D C Underdown. It belongs to a period when system-built houses were gaining… 6 min read Precast concrete Uniment Houses Uniment houses are a relatively rare form of system-built property constructed primarily in the 1940s to a design by Uniment (France) Ltd. Only about 40 were built, and they are… 5 min read Flettons Photograph to follow Precast concrete The Unit-Built House The Unit-Built house, also known as the Unit Construction house, is a concrete system-built house from the 1940s, a period of severe housing shortage after the Second World War… 5 min read Precast concrete The Unitroy House The Unitroy house is a precast concrete house of the 1950s, built when demand for affordable, quickly built housing was still high after the war. It was designed by M Flatman and… 6 min read Precast concrete The Unity Type I House The Unity Type I house is a form of post-war, non-traditional housing developed during the 1950s to address acute housing shortages following the Second World War. Manufactured by… 4 min read Precast concrete The Unity Type II House The Unity Type II house is a form of post-war non-traditional housing developed during the 1950s to meet urgent national housing demand. These properties were produced as part of… 3 min read

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Precast concrete The Waller House The Waller house is a precast reinforced concrete house from the 1920s. It was designed by J H de W Waller and manufactured by Waller Housing Corporation Ltd and Hill Richards &… 5 min read Precast concrete The Wates House The Wates house, also known as the PH6, is a precast reinforced concrete (PRC) panel house manufactured by Wates Ltd and built between 1947 and 1956. It belongs to the period of… 5 min read Precast concrete The Webb House The Webb house is a precast reinforced concrete house built in 1947, at a time of significant housing shortage in the UK when the government was looking for rapid and… 6 min read Precast concrete The Wessex House The Wessex house is a prefabricated reinforced concrete (PRC) system-built house from the post-war period. The houses were built mainly between the 1940s and 1960s, when the… 6 min read Precast concrete The West's 5M House The West's 5M house is a precast concrete bungalow from the 1960s. It was manufactured by West's Piling & Construction Co. Ltd and designed by G H Wilkinson, with the aim of… 5 min read Precast concrete The Wil-Mac House The Wil-Mac house is a precast concrete, system-built house from the 1960s, a decade that saw a strong push towards prefabricated housing in the UK and wide use of precast… 5 min read Precast concrete The Wilvan House The Wilvan house is a highly unusual and rare form of mid-20th-century non-traditional housing. Designed during the 1940s, only two semi-detached, two-storey examples were… 3 min read Precast concrete The Winget House The Winget house is a system-built house constructed between 1928 and 1931, part of the interwar effort to tackle housing shortages through new construction techniques. It was… 6 min read Precast concrete The Woolaways Bungalow The Woolaways Bungalow, also known as the Westholm, is a form of system-built housing developed in the UK following the Second World War. Construction commenced in 1953 and… 3 min read

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