House types
Danish house types – know your house
What kind of house do you have? It decides a lot before you extend or renovate. Each house type was built in a particular period, with its methods and materials. Know the type, and you know what is worth keeping, what usually fails, and where the house can change without losing its form.
About 1910–1940, and the 1950s
The master builder's villa
What a master builder's villa is, how to recognise one, what is worth keeping, and where you can extend without spoiling the whole.
How old is my house?
Many people ask what style their house is. Often the better question is when and how it was built. You can find that out yourself.
The year of construction is in BBR, the national building register, which anyone can look up for an address. It is a good starting point, but check it against the drawings. The year can be wrong, or show a later rebuild.
The house's old drawings are in the municipality's building archive. Many municipalities have put theirs online, at weblager.dk or filarkiv.dk. Otherwise you can ask the municipality for them.
Last comes the house itself: the shape of the roof, the bricks, the windows and the plan. They change from period to period, and they are what the house-type pages describe.
Shall we look at your house?
Start with the free property report. It brings together the history, local plan and building rights for your address, and you have it within 2 working days.
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