ABSTRACT
TYPES OF FLOOR Most Victorian and Edwardian houses of the middle and upper classes had ground floors made from timber. These same houses often featured small areas (usually circulation areas) of decorative tiling laid on early forms of concrete. However, in housing built for the working classes, many dwellings had ground floors made in whole, or in part, from stone flags, or large heavy clay tiles, both laid directly on compacted earth. During the first half of the last century most ground floors were built in timber and are usually referred to as raised timber, or suspended, floors. Nowadays, most ground floors are formed from in situ (ie cast in place) or pre-cast concrete.
