We need more space and hope the value will be increased by creating extra rooms" says Gemma, a Devon housing association manager. "We love the look of terraces, especially with original brick fronts and not re-rendered or pebble-dashed. They have bought a two-bedroom house built in the 1890s but they want to create a third bedroom in the loft, and then plan to extend the rear of the ground floor into the courtyard. That sums up what Gemma and Antony Walczak are doing in the terraced Plymouth suburb of Keyham. You can see that if you walk down a terrace," he says. They were in the past typifying working-class areas but now aspiring first-time buyers or young families buy them, extend and modernise, then sell. "They're often a barometer of a locality's well-being. This is why, says Allan, streets of terraced homes so often symbolise areas "on the rise" as they reveal themselves being gentrified with skips and builders' vans lining the kerbs.
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