Boot house

{{short description|Type of houses in the UK}}

Boot houses were houses built in the United Kingdom after World War I to accommodate the housing boom following the war.{{cite book

| last = Beckett

| first = Derrick

|author2=Paul Hugh Marsh

| title = Timber

| publisher = Surrey University Press

| date = 1974

| pages = 156

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=T_gDAQAAIAAJ&q=boot

| isbn =978-0-903384-02-5}} They were named after Henry Boot, whose construction company (Henry Boot Limited), produced an estimated 50,000 houses between the end of World War I and the start of World War II.{{cite book

| last = Wellings

| first = Fred

| title = British Housebuilders: History and Analysis

| publisher = Blackwell Publishing

| date = 2006

| pages = 43

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=2t1SMok2938C&q=%22Boot+house%22+prefab&pg=PA43

| isbn =978-1-4051-4918-1}} Due to a shortage of bricks, boot houses were built using precast reinforced clinker-concrete columns.{{cite book

| last = Baggott

| first = Rob

| title = Pressure Groups Today

| publisher = Manchester University Press ND

| date = 1995

| pages = 202–204

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=1zG8AAAAIAAJ&q=%22Boot+house%22+concrete&pg=PA202

| isbn =978-0-7190-3579-1}} Structural tests in the 1980s revealed significant deterioration in the concrete as a result of carbonatation. The Housing Act 1985 provided government grants for homeowners of such "defective" houses.{{cite book

| last = Parnham

| first = Phil

|author2=Chris Rispin

| title = Residential Property Appraisal

| publisher = Taylor & Francis

| date = 2001

| pages = 300–302

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=B99Uoz3VVKAC&q=%22Boot+house%22+concrete&pg=RA1-PA300

| edition=3rd illustrated

| isbn =978-0-419-22570-6}}