The three-bed semi is the backbone of British housing stock, along with traditional terraces, and they are classic homes for families with many conforming to the two reception rooms and a kitchen downstairs and two bedrooms, a 'box' room and a bathroom upstairs.
Over the years a series of owners have transformed the semis of Wales, adding extensions on the back and loft conversions at the top, but most are expanded from the core, standard semi-detached house design.
But not all semis are created equally, as this unusual example on a hillside with rural views on the outskirts of a popular Powys market town easily proves.
