Key words Riemannian manifold, curvature homogeneous manifold, locally homogeneous space MSC (2010) 53C21, 53C25, 53C30 Curvature homogeneous spaces have been studied by many authors. In this paper, we introduce and study a natural modification of this class, namely so-called curvature homogeneous spaces of type (1,3). We present a class of proper examples in every dimension and we prove a classification theorem in dimension 3 (for the generic case). We restrict ourselves to the Riemannian situation and to curvature homogeneity of order zero.