The Nissen Hut
Temporary Post-War Housing was built on Queens Road just off Green Street in 1945. The prefabricated hut was conceived to meet wartime demand for accommodation. The hut did not develope into popular housing, despite their low cost. One reason was the association with huts: a hut was not a house, with all the status a house implies. The second point was that rectangular furniture does not fit into a curved-wall house very well, and, thus, the actual usable space in a hut might be much less than supposed.
In the UK, after the Second World War many were converted for agricultural or industrial purposes, and numerous examples have since been demolished.