The erection manuals held by the National Archives give tremendously detailed step by step instructions quite reminiscent of those for ready to assemble furniture supplied today by that other icon of Swedish origin, IKEA! I am not certain they are prefabs, may be some one else can take a look. ), despite this the houses were designed to last for 60 years. Swedish timber supplied beams, joists, door and window frames for homes in 19th-century Britain. How the 'Sydney School' changed postwar Australian ... In some cases the construction work was carried out by Prisoners of War who had not yet been repatriated. Your timber frame house 2021 | HUF HAUS - Germany However the quality of construction- or maybe design – (or both) is definitely not up to Swedish standards and it’s evident they were only intended as stop-gap accommodation. The pair still standing on Broughton Hall Road in Broughton, Flintshire CH4 0QW are currently being renovated. The small bedroom has a shorter fitted wardrobe over the stairs. Bungalows, 2 pairs. The history of the Post-war temporary prefab houses. The majority of houses/bungalows and many low-rise flats in Britain are of brick or . best wishes, Dear David Thank you for contacting us about replacement wood on your Swedish house. Small estate in Fairford Gloucestershire look very similar-cannot see it listed above, Thank you for contacting the Prefab Museum. Scotland received 2500 and the England and Wales got the rest. Found inside â Page 196In this extraordinary work , Whiteread made a concrete cast of a house in East London due to be demolished , the last surviving building in an area flattened by wartime bomb damage and post - war reconstruction . http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/written_answers/1945/oct/23/swedish-timber-houses According to this report 5000 timber houses ordered from Sweden. There are 3 pairs of semi. The memo reported that, “The problem of securing adequate housing in rural areas is causing grave concern to the Minister of Health, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Minister of Agriculture. Thank you for the information. PDF Prefabricated wooden houses in the Swedish Welfare State St Alphege Church, Edmonton | Open House London 2021 Hello Jacqueline, I am a postgraduate student of Sustainable Heritage in University College London. The coal house could be replenished from an outside ‘hidden’ door with the coal being removed inside via the store room. Thank you! Found inside â Page 136The History of the UK Temporary Housing Programme Brenda Vale. The other side of the experiment with post-war prefabrication high-lighted by the Swedish self-build experience, was the need to cope with the reductions in both numbers and ... They are now on our map with a credit to you, and Neil is adding them to the list. The city of Stockholm stands on fourteen islands on Sweden's south-central east coast. However, progress on fulfilling that initial order does not seem to have gone well and was still incomplete in 1949. They were described as ‘permanent’ but even so were given a life expectancy of only 60 years.  We will visit […], Dear Michael, thanks very much for the information! Neil is compiling a location list of Swedish post-war prefabs (sometimes known as Swedish or Swedish timber houses). He grew up in a Swedish house in Pool-in-Wharfedale, Yorkshire, which is still in his family. I always look out for them on my travels. After the war the Burt Committee's finding were translated into numerous new housing systems using steel and aluminium (which, now that the war was ended, were coming into surplus), timber (in 1945 timber houses were imported in pre-fabricated parts from Sweden) and concrete. Caxton, Cambridgeshire, Swedish dormer bungalow rear view. They, in common with Councils throughout the country, were trying to respond to the post-war housing shortage. I have also added the correct addresses from my last post. I believe the were built in the mid-to-late 30’s? Swedish architecture describes the architecture of Sweden as a cultural phenomenon. Found inside â Page 65We can also learn valuable lessons from Swedish experience of prefabricated timber house building . Soon after the first world war the need arose in Sweden to simplify the site erection of timber houses , so that unskilled future ... Found inside â Page 181open-tread staircases 66, 133 Oriel House, Haslemere 14, 41, 150, 151, 151 Parker, Charlotte 128â30, 132â3, 135â40 patios 48â9, 49; see also courtyards Picker, Stanley 16â17, 43, 153 The Picker House gallery 164â5, 164 Picker House, ... The 1944 memo suggests that the cost of a house would be about £240 on import with a total of more than £7,000,000 being paid to Sweden. Swedish houses location list updated 27 July 2021, Braintree & Bocking Prefabs (and Hutton) - guest blog post by Braintree historian Mike Bardell, SWEDISH POST-WAR PREFABRICATED HOUSES, a narrative by Neil Midgley. In addition, a different style of bungalow was provided for its workers by the Scottish Forestry Commission on a number of its plantations. Found inside â Page 4He TRADE IN PARLIAMENT Swedish Timber and British Coal - Supplies ... compo - boards compiled by the Considerable discussion took place regardBoard of Trade for the years 1938 , 1944 and ing the post - war structure scheme for the 1945 ... Hatfield, Hertfordshire, Cornish three-storey blocks of flats in Hunderton Road, Hereford, Tarran prefabs in St Hilda's Gardens, Whitby, Front garden of 845 Yardley Wood Road, the Valley Prefabs, Unidentified prefab? In commemoration of the occasion, Mr William Whiteley presented a clock to the first occupants, George and Stella Marriott who had married the previous year. I am looking out the origional drawings for these houses all of which are very much occupied. He grew up in a Swedish house in Pool-in-Wharfedale, Yorkshire, which is still in his family. According to a 1989 archeological survey, the structure was built in the 1130s and may have been used for less than a . In this way, the best advantages of production are used for the ultra-modern architect's house in traditional post and beam architecture. best wishes, Jane. There was a different specification in Scotland. Found inside â Page 664It was a good and sound scheme and , if regard was paid to post - war costs , not an expensive one . ... made for a chief engineer and general manager to the board as from special allocation of Swedish timber houses to them . Found inside â Page 201Both departments were represented on the Committees for Post - war Building Studies and Standards , and on the Burt ... the war in Europe , of a mission charged with negotiating the purchase of Swedish and Finnish houses , to be brought ... We cannot give advice but BRE (Building Research Establishment) produced a report in 1995 ‘Timber Framed Housing Systems Built in the UK 1920-1965’, a section of which is quoted at the bottom of this web page http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2002/03/15098/8737 . The front door is protected by a porch and opens into a spacious hallway. Some of those in Scotland we know to be Swedish Types B and C as a Department of Health for Scotland letter dated 2nd October 1946 quotes Ministry of Works estimates of Type B £803, Type C £715 and Type D £880(7). There are several different styles but typically, unless they have been re-clad, they have distinctive vertical wooden exterior planking. This infers that they did not order any Type A houses. The majority are still standing and lived in. Swedish-made prefabricated timber houses, at Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, 1945; 12. Its members comprise banks, building societies, insurance companies and other specialist residential mortgage lenders, which together represent around 98% of the UK mortgage assets. […] first step in a much bigger discovery, there were not only Phoenix prefabs in the Hebrides but also Swedish Houses(1)⦠and plenty of them all the way from Barra to Lewis! "Weir Houses" were built at Sankeys. The houses were two-storey, had two or three bedrooms, living room and bathroom. Can you send us a photo to prefabmuseum@gmail.com ? […] You can read about how we map the post-war prefabs here, and our location list of Swedish timber prefabs here. I am trying to understand how warm or cold it can get inside the Swedish houses. . Convince yourself of our concept during a visit to our show house centre in . The prefabricated sections were first stored at Otley before being erected along Mill Lane in Pool (Postcode KS21 1LT, Ordnance Survey Grid Ref: SE245453). From spring 1946, more than 156,000 pre-fab houses were erected across the UK in record time as a temporary solution envisaged to last no longer than ten years. Caxton, Cambridgeshire, Joan and her sister. One of about ten all my neighbours have super homes and I would not sell it The green cladding is a bit worrying but I dare not move it I am 76 and assume this house will last me out lived here 46 years . hi can any 1 help me with were and how too get the wood for my house here in kinlockleven House style 4 (Scotland). they wer biult after the war and the oter two were biult whe i ws about 8 and in 64 now .they are situated to the right and left of calderglen nursery school whuch is wooden and possible swedish as well . I think I have found some more:- 2, Swedish Houses, Hankelow, Crewe, Cheshire East CW3 0JF. my wife and i own the pair of B1 style bungalows in Cucklington Somerset , on your list . Taking over 100 hours to erect they were sent to badly bombed areas to replace destroyed housing. For instance, furniture grade timber is unheard of in the south, because timber cutters strip cut so much to during the gutting that happened after the war. Memories of 321 White Hart Lane, Tottenham, London N17. You can view the list. Many survive to this day and some have become listed buildings. . Required fields are marked *, I consent to my name and e-mail address being stored along with this comment, and to the website editors communicating with me by e-mail about the comment if necessary. Thank you very much for the information Philip. best wishes from the Prefab Museum. Found inside â Page 436Hearings Before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, First and Second Sessions, ... House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. TABLE 13. - Sweden Possible sources and distribution of financing Import ... I would be interested to know how to upgrade the insulation without causing the wood to deteriorate any more, both houses are pretty good although a few years ago were , before we bought, targeted for redevelopment. Frustratingly no diagrams of types B and C have yet been found and so we are unable to positively identify the examples of them which undoubtedly remain. I am doing my thesis research on understanding the thermal efficiency of the Swedish houses. It has been used for thousands of years and there still are some buildings that can be dated back to 6000 B.C. These factory-made temporary homes were constructed at the close of World War II, with more than 156,000 erected from 1946-1948 all over the UK to rehouse those who had lost their homes during the Blitz and servicemen coming back from the frontline. The first of these houses were built at Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, in January 1946. We will add your info to our list. It is fairly clear that they have adequate other markets”(7) . However, by far the majority in Scotland were erected in larger estates within towns and cities. It was written by Keith Ross of the Building Research Establishment (BRE). This form of prefab is a timber framed dwelling whose parts were built in Sweden and then assembled in situ across the country. The houses/bungalows were not part of the Temporary Housing Programme, but a separate programme of imports. I think there are some in staxton village , between barkston ash and tadcaster. Thank you! If you have information about Swedish (or Finnish) houses, please leave a comment on this post, alternatively email prefabmuseum@gmail.com If you can tell us the postcode, name of the road or nearby it really helps us locate them on the old (and new) maps. Dear Donna Many thanks for the information which I have passed to Neil who compiles the list. An obvious reason is a large supply of forests, which provides one of the country's principal natural resources. I have been trying to contact a few owners of Swedish houses, but without success. After the war the Burt Committee's finding were translated into numerous new housing systems using steel and aluminium (which, now that the war was ended, were coming into surplus), timber (in 1945 timber houses were imported in pre-fabricated parts from Sweden) and concrete. Don’t have exact location though. The total cost per house erected in this country was expected to be about £800. Technological change ins timber construction began in Germany in 1910 and were essential-ly completed in the years after the First World War and the first half of the 1920s. Year of construction From Found inside â Page 8866 saw four houses scattered round the surrounding hills . ... He had worked on the mainland for a number of years and on returning to Castlebay had occupied one of the postwar Swedish timber houses for a time . Stockholm. . cast in-situ concrete houses that are badly cracked, timber framed houses built between 1945 . Great site. An even larger development remains in the Balornock area of Glasgow. The single storey Tarran prefab is currently used as a changing room, and the Swedish Timber prefab is still lived in. A HUF house is therefore a timber frame house in the architectural sense and a prefabricated house from a production point of view. We have a tradition of building that way." If you are on Facebook it is well worth following the page Our Little Bit of Sweden in the UK which is a renovation project of a dormer bungalow, with photos of every stage. Has anyone here had any experience in obtaining a mortgage on a timber framed and clad property built from Swedish timber of post war age? In the late 60s thru 80s I lived in one of the houses with my parents and four sisters. they are on the tranent ormiston road . The home itself was built from a timber frame which was clad in the prefabricated vertical tongue-and-groove timber panels which are double thickness with insulation in between. Our next issue of the Prefab Post is all about Swedish houses, it will be published the week after next. You must be logged in to post . Thank you! Our house was A Swedish bungalow design. We are intrigued! The houses were imported from Sweden at the end of WW2 to designs from the UK. prefabricated) homes to tackle the shortage. My information will not be shared with any third party (see our Privacy Statement - opens in a new window). I hope your house is on the list! Found inside â Page 33A post - war market for United States plywood is believed to exist , particularly in view of considerable activity in the construction of private homes and Government buildings . Although the bulk of the imports in the past have been of ... They are most unusual in having both vertical and horizontal planking, and appear to have been there since at least the early 1950s. At the moment our Scottish location list does not distinguish the type or origin but it may be something we are able to do in time. SWEDISH POST-WAR PREFABRICATED HOUSES, a narrative by Neil Midgley – The Prefab Museum, https://www.timbersource.co.uk/softwood/european-softwood-range/redwood, The Moving Prefab at Eden Camp – and an unexpected discovery! Like the house version the front door of the bungalow is protected by a porch and opens into a spacious entrance hallway. I’m currently renovating it, the previous owners let it go and its had been cladded ( it is vertical weatherboards underneath, the condition of them seems good), I’m insulating all exterior walls and bathroom is getting an update, but keeping to its original design. Immediately below is an article headed, “Hitler Suicided in Berlin”, an indication of the importance the editor placed on the house building programme! In the case of modern, new build timber homes, panels are delivered to the site 'open' (with insulation and joinery added on site), or 'closed'. The houses in Broughton nr Chester are currently undergoing refurbishment by the council, which includes cladding the outside. The Swedish houses were officially opened on 3rd October 1947, in a ceremony attended by Pool Parish Councillors. When I find them I will post the details. In England and Wales pairs of semi detached houses with single storey ‘wash houses’ (style 1) and semi detached dormer bungalows (style B1) were erected individually or in small groups in mainly rural areas. Mr and Mrs Marriot had moved into what is now number 35. Time will tell we guess. Your email address will not be published. The cladding is not distinctive either, which is a real shame. Off the wash house is a WC, a store room and a coal house. These houses are still standing. (4) Pool Parish Council minutes (still held by the PPC), (5) www.hansard.millbanksystems.com/written_answers/1945/oct/23/swedish-timber-houses, (6) www.hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1949/feb/25/swedish-houses-scotland, (7) National Archives, File HLG 101/50 Swedish houses general correspondence (8) National Archives, File CRES 36/163 Swedish permanent prefabricated cottages, Prefab Homes by Elisabeth Blanchet, published by Shire Library 2014, ISBN-13: 978 0 74781 357 6, http://my1940-swedish-timber-house.weebly.com, https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1392257, www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/news.php?id=840639, Wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefabs_in_the_United_Kingdom, Thank you. Thank you! Also Dalmilling, Westwood Avenue in Ayr, the bungalow style ones are also situated on Mainholm Rd in Dalmilling Ayr as well. You can view the list. Timber-framed cabin by Hanna Michelson stands on stilts to peep over the treetops of Swedish mountain . i am looking for wood for the out side 8 beaces. Hola! The ship's cargo, timber, had caught fire on Saturday, and while the ship itself was not burning, the fire was difficult to extinguish, MSB said in a statement. Moving Prefab Museum Archive - submissions and puzzles! We sometimes receive requests for help with renovating Swedish houses and dormer bungalows. The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) said it had sent two helicopters, while several other authorities and organisations, including the Coast Guard, were also fighting the fire. The tongue and groove planks were made from Baltic Pine (Pinus sylvestris), which is known under several different names including Russian redwood. They were supposed to last just 10 years, but more than 70 years on, many of Britain's prefabs are still standing, much loved and lived in. I would love to find all them all. In Collingbourne are a pair of house. The homes in the images are at Trowley Rise in Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire. My husband lived in one of the swedish houses post war, possibly 1948 when they were newly built. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 20TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE IIWC, FALUN, SWEDEN, 13TH - 16TH APRIL 2016 . In the early 20th century Sweden had a skilled prefab industry. (Almost identical to the one featured in the photos). A link will be provided on our Moving Prefab page to view it online. Swedish timber house was a pre-fabricated timber property, the timber could be very much seen externally. I would be highly grateful if you could contact me and give me more information. They were erected in much larger numbers, sometimes in large urban developments, comprised of semis and terraces of four to six houses. This house was designed by Le Corbusier and was one of 33 houses designed by architects handpicked by Le Corbusier to propose a healthier, more modern way of living. Newstead House, constructed in 1846, claims the title of the oldest existing house in Brisbane. I’ve been reading your website for a long time now and finally got the courage to go ahead and give you a shout out from Huffman Texas! recently saw 2 sets of houses and 1 set of bungalows at Marshland At James near Wisbech Cambs PE14 8ey Street view shows them as original but when I saw them all but one was clad with external insulation I did not think they were suitable for external insulation due to the risk of condensation between the internal and external cladding? Maufe had previously been engaged to design a church for the site in 1940, and although plans were drawn up for a church with a stocky, vernacular feel, having something in common with his 1938 Church of St John the Evangelist, Hook . http://my1940-swedish-timber-house.weebly.com/history.html If you could ask for information to do with obtaining a mortgage on these buildings, I would be grateful. best wishes from the Prefab Museum, Just behind my old Primary School in Scotland, there is a little post-war estate known as ‘The Swedish Houses’: Doon Avenue, Prestwick, KA9 2AE, and Afton Avenue KA9 2AG. Mossblown in Ayr has them too same style as Doon avenue . Barrs terrace. Email: sohini.nandi.17@ucl.ac.uk. This explains why that, in England and Wales, the Swedish homes were distributed in small numbers to mainly rural areas (see the separate ‘Location List’ on the Prefab Museum website – if you can add to or update this list please let us know). What is certain is that numbers never reached anywhere near the 30,000 first envisaged! Found inside â Page 261However , by the spring of 1944 talk of post - war reconstruction was already in the air , and an exhibition of Swedish prefabricated timber houses was duly opened by Mr Alfred ( now Sir Alfred ) Bossom . This may be a good moment to ... They were to have a structural lifetime of between 10 and 15 years. Actually addressed Stockholm Place. Post-war period; About 84% of detached houses in Sweden use prefabricated timber elements, while in developed economies such as the US, Australia and the UK, no more than 5% of permanent housing has any significant prefabrication. I would be highly grateful if you could contact me and give me more information. I have some pictures from the 50s that I could let you have, Hello I have been taking photos for swedish timber housing in Lerwick on Shetland and other locations on shetland and also in the highlands of Scotland in glencoe. This time the Council resolved to instruct a surveyor to report on possible sites for agricultural cottages and to place an order for eighteen Airey Rural Houses. Swedish Timber framed House. Interestingly if you look at the BISF non-traditional house over the years people have tried to make it look like a more traditional house. Found inside â Page 473166 200 662 770 tive Union and owning house property form subsidiary com+20 +16 Excess of exports ( + ) or imports ... engaged principally in in 1935 ) the construction of apartment houses throughout Sweden . ... Ex Boards and timber . with best wishes Jane and Elisabeth. dRMM | 6,989 followers on LinkedIn. He says: "We have a lot of housing factories around Sweden that are producing timber houses for families. Swedish houses, Columba Place, Benbecula, SWEDISH POST-WAR PREFABRICATED HOUSES, a narrative by Neil Midgley. An increasing number of homes, especially those which remain Council owned, are being clad in order to extend their longevity and to bring them up to more modern standards of insulation. Robert Matthew, in 1945 Chief Architect in the Department of Health for Scotland was stranded in Sweden for VE Day. We will pass the information to Neil who is compiling the list. Credit to Andrew Kitchen, please. M. Wesam Al Asali, Princeton University (THE CONVERSATION) Around the world, there . Thank you very much for the information and we are glad you’re pleased! Found inside â Page 80Timber houses also attracted early interest . In June 1945 the Association was informed by the Government that it had succeeded in purchasing 5,000 Swedish timber houses , and that one half of these were to be built in Scotland . Found inside â Page 48The inter - war housing schemes are , as elsewhere , characterised by a lack of communal , social and recreational provision ... containing approximately 212 permanent houses , of which ninety - six are of the Swedish timber type . Swedish houses location list updated 19 March 2021, Braintree & Bocking Prefabs (and Hutton) - guest blog post by Braintree historian Mike Bardell, Where I lived when I was a kid, a poem about prefab childhood by Paul Kennedy, Previous locations of Prefabs in Southampton. 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