new name for bungalow?

roses We were the third owners of our house and we were here longer than either of the others. My husband knew it from the day the previous owners to us moved in about 1947, as the son was his best friend and he played here often. It has hardly been altered at all, structurally. We replaced windows and added a small conservatory at the back (south) and upstairs we enlarged a walk-in linen cupboard into a tiny boxroom, which just takes a single bed, and extended the main bedroom into the eaves for an ensuite. The other double bedroom is as it was. It was built with 2 bed rooms upstairs, not converted to add them, so there is a well-proportioned staircase and a large half-landing window.

Original features? A round stained glass panel in the front door and a "sunburst" inner door, some nice light fittings, a picture rail in one of the two bay-windowed front rooms - built to be as the "best room" but we have always used the room at the back of the house, which gets the sunshine, simple cornices in the three downstairs public rooms and the hall, good-sized kitchen, 9x7 ft bathroom, all the doors have a single panel (very modern at the time, when 4 panels were normal) unreliable bronze doorbell which has the original wiring buried where it can't be replaced.

I think the earliest bungalows date back to the mid-19th century. I think they were built by colonial administrators, planters and army officers returning from India, as single storey houses were so unusual in England, they used the Indian name bungalow to describe them. I have certainly seen bungalows that date to at least the start of the 20th century and some that were possibly earlier.

There are plenty of pre WW2 bungalows. I live opposite 4 that I know date from the early 1930s. They were built as farm cottages to replace a terrace of 15/16 century thatched cottages that burnt down in 1929 when a spark from a steam train set the thatch on fire.

Thank you Elegranfor your info stuffed post, I like the sound of the stained glass and sunburst door [very Art Deco.]So your house was built with an upper storey, but all sounds quite original [some bungalows have been hopelessly messed about with.]You are correct FlicketyB in that the earliest will be about 1830 [so I was once told] there may have been a few built before then, that are no longer in existance.There were a lot built in the 1920's and 1930's big eras for all kinds of house building [including Council houses.]The next lot of building was late forties and into the 50's and the hugest of the building surges was in the 1960's. I would love to visit a Victorian bungalow though [have been in Vict. cottages, and semi's and terraces, cramped and poky so expect bungalows may have been the same] although it did depend on the wealth of the purchaser.