In the 1930’s many houses were built with cavity walls with steel wall ties. With cavity walls, wall ties are needed to tie the two leafs of the cavity wall together to prevent separation/bulging. However, steel ties corrode over time.Click to see full answer. Hereof, are 1930’s houses well built?In the main, a 1930s home is an excellent property type to live in. They are spacious compared to most other homes built in the Victorian era and post Second World War. Not only are they internally large, but many have much better sized gardens than you would see in pre and post-1930s properties. do 1930 houses have cavity walls? In houses built after the 1930s, many will have a cavity, which is an empty space between the inside and outside wall. The focus is more about the walls of houses built between around 1930s and mid 1970s where walls were built without insulation in them, resulting in the cavity. Similarly, you may ask, what were houses like in the 1930s? Houses were small and children part of the life of the family. The typical house of the 1930s was generally smaller than those before 1914. It had a front room off a hall, a second living room at the rear and a kitchen. Upstairs there were two large bedrooms, a third much smaller room, and a bathroom and toilet.What were houses like in 1939?The 1939 house tended to be terraced or semi-detached, with council housing being uniform in design. With the most popular house style being the ‘Tudorbethan’ style from the ‘Arts and Crafts’ movement, house styles moved away from the previously popular pebble-dash to brick and half-timbering.