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low-blocked
noun (of a building) built up on stumps of less than about 5 feet in height. Compare high-blocked.
Contributor's comments: Houses were all either 'high blocked' or 'low blocked'. The latter included modern slab houses and low stumped houses. The former were reserved for houses at least 5 feet off the ground, giving you a reasonable chance of having some sort of life under the main floor.
Contributor's comments: In Rockhampton, a house was 'high-blocked' or 'low-blocked' or 'flat on the ground' as I recall. It could be 'built-in under' or just 'battened' but all houses on stilts were on 'stumps', not blocks, although they were all built on a 'block a dirt'. Of course, more modern houses were often built of blocks or sat on stumps made of blocks. In Rocky, such concrete blocks or bricks were known as 'rock-block' (eg a 'rock-block' house), but in Brisbane it was Besser-block!