What is "council houses"

Usage examples of "council houses".

I had never heard of Tesco's, Perthshire or Denbighshire, council houses, Morecambe and Wise, railway cuttings, Christmas crackers, bank holidays, seaside rock, milk floats, trunk calls, Scotch eggs, Morris Minors and Poppy Day.

The new council estate at Twitbury Saint Mary now merged with Netherbury council houses to cover ahl the hand that had in former times proyided a hiving in farming for the village clustered about the ancient church.

As she went toward the plaza she passed the merchants' hall and the gardeners' mart and the guildhalls and artists' council houses, and from each of them representatives were coming out in the customary garb of their professions and guilds, all wandering in the same direction.

This generalization is less true of the better-paid workers, especially those who live in council houses and labour-saving flats, but it is true enough even of them to point to a difference of outlook.

There were six council houses at the end of the village street looking slightly self-conscious.

On one side, set back from the road, was a row of newly built council houses, a strip of green in front of them and a gay note set by each house having been given a different coloured front door.

The lower deck quarters were square and plain, like council houses, but the Wardroom was quite grand, a country manor with the football field as its estate.

Its long winding approach with grey stone buildings on one side of the road starkly contrasted with rows of red-brick council houses on the other.