On 05/04/2021 10:16 am, Chris Hogg wrote:

JNugent wrote:

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Not bungalows and probably not within the definition of prefabs either,
but many council houses were built in the 1950s as "Cornish Units", with
the walls made of slabs (*big* panels) of reinforced concrete and
mansard roofs.

As they were sold under the RTB, the difficulty of mortgaging them
became a problem. The remedy seems to have been the support of the upper
floors with Acrow props and the replacement of the walls with brick.
There are some not too far from here.

And see:

https://cockrams-surveyors.co.uk/cornish-unit-type-1/

Yup. 'Cornish Unit' houses and bungalows were prefabricated, quick to
erect, and fulfilled an urgent need for housing in the years
immediately after WW2, a result of bomb damage and slum clearance
schemes. Much used by local authorities at the time and whole estates
of Cornish Unit buildings were put up all over the country. The panels
were made at a blockworks near St. Austell in central Cornwall, and
made use of the extensive mountains of sharp sand available as a
by-product/waste from the china clay industry. Later, the blockworks
became the pilot scale laboratories for the main china clay producer
in the area.

See
https://www.metrotile.co.uk/history-...possibilities/
and https://tinyurl.com/yffmjknq for images

Thanks for that.