From the first half of the 20th century up until the mid 1950s, the ordinary townsfolk built simple houses without any pretensions to particular architectural styles.  In the main these were freestanding, single-storey brick or cross-framed buildings with single sloping roofs, often set around a small yard.  Typical examples are to be found in the area around Efodou St., in the neighbourhood known as Agia Triada and to the north of the Martinengo Bastion.