I'm interested that the roofs there on townhouses aren't generally flat or for walking, as the roofs here on brownstones are. Many of the brownstones are from the mid-late 1800s (so perhaps it's a later thing if the London ones are earlier),
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All that said, don't a lot of London townhouses have back gardens? They do here, but I think they do there as well?
Depending on which bit of London, terraced housing can be anything from 1700s to today. Its most usual to have a pitched roof, covered in slate or tile - gutters front and back. Sometimes you have what looks like a pitched roof from the street, but is missing the top of the triangle and is flat on top. I did once live in a run of terraced houses that I think were from the 1930s - and they had a flat roof. We weren't supposed to have roof access but we'd all climb up there through the hatch on the top landing and sit up there to sunbathe, well away from the knee high parapet. Not exactly safe, but beat being indoors. UK house builders are still putting up terraced houses with pitched slate roof on estates today. And really small rooms. Not totally guaranteed that the newer the house the smaller the rooms, but in a given price bracket, in the same area, it is a pretty useful rule. Also a "double" bedroom should be one that can take a double bed - but a lot of new stuff is at the size where you can fit in a double bed, but the door bumps on it when you open it, and you are struggling to fit in more than a dressing table and a wardrobe either side of the bed head.
Having looked at your links - they are gorgeous - and big. A lot of London, once you are out of the centre, are two storey Victorian terraces. You mostly get the tall four/five storey town houses in the centre, or in the centres of what used to be separate towns that were swallowed up by London.
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