The thing is that British buildings aren’t built for any kind of heat. There are no airy courtyards or encouragement of breeze, no cool stone seats, not even usually full shutters to block the windows on the sunny side of the building.
(More puzzling: also not built to keep out damp?)
There’s a view that it’s the age of the housing stock, but I’ve lived in newer properties and know people in actual newish builds and they still struggle with heat dissipation. It’s not even like we have uniquely changeable or changing weather
This is fascinating and to me suggests there is some structural reason (policy, incentives, building standards etc, i.e. NOT lack of competencies) for why UK housing is so poor compared to neighboring countries
Yep I live in a new build flat and in this weather I have to come over to my parents’ because it becomes an absolute sauna. Holds heat very well and won’t release it. The huge windows don’t help.
