Download or read book The English Semi-detached House written by Finn Jensen and published by Ovolo Publishing, Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text tells the story of the most successful house-type in British history, of which more than four million were built between the first and second world wars. Jensen tracks the phenomenal rise and subsequent fall of the speculatively-built semi, from the Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian to the 1920s, 30s and beyond.