Cornish Houses

The upper photo below is of a 'Cornish House'. It has concrete panels at ground floor level and a timber frame covered with tiles to the first floor and roof. There is also a variant type Cornish house which has floor to roof level concrete panels. A row of these is shown in the lower photo. These are known as Cornish type II and the upper example is a Cornish type I.

Like with the Airey house shown yesterday, Cornish houses are designated defective and not mortgageable unless repaired through an approved scheme. You'll notice that the left hand half of the semi in the top photo has been repaired, with modern brick walls visible in place of the concrete panels. The fact that the attached neighbour has not been repaired is usually still a mortgageability problem for the repaired house. Would be good to hear any experiences of this.