It doesn’t take fancy architecture to please me. I could live that way except for one feature. I don’t like being on ground level, with my front door literally on the street. Not even any walk up stairs or a tiny porch to separate me from anyone strolling down the street. That would take getting used to.
I think that’s a side effect of no basements or crawlspaces under the first floor. Not sure why they build them like that. I know that’s standard in swampy areas or places prone to flooding, but I don’t imagine that most of England fits that bill.
Maybe if they try to dig out a basement they’ll just hit some Saxon grave mound and have to wait for the archaeologists to go excavate, so they just don’t bother.