Residential dwellings can be built in a large variety of configurations. House generally refers to a Shelter or Building that is a Dwelling or place for Habitation by Human beings. A basic division is between free-standing or detached dwellings and various types of attached dwellings. Detached dwellings vary greatly in scale and amount of accommodation provided. Similarly, attached or multi-unit housing is also varied in scale and levels of appointment. Multi-family residential is a classification of Housing where multiple separate housing units are contained within one building Although there appear to be many different types, many of the variations listed below are purely matters of style rather than spatial arrangement, or even, scale. Design is used both as a Noun and a Verb. The term is often tied to the various Applied arts and Engineering (See design disciplines Some of the terms listed are only used in some parts of the English speaking world.

Detached dwellings / single-unit housing

• A-frame, so-called because of the appearance of the structure
• Addison house, a type of low-cost house with a concrete floor and cavity walls of concrete blocks, built in the UK between 1920 and 1921^[1]
• Airey house, a type of low-cost house developed in the UK in the 1940s by Sir Edwin Airey, recognisable by its precast concrete columns and walls of precast ship-lap concrete panels^[1]
• Cape Cod, popular in the Northeastern United States
• Cape Dutch, popular in the Western Cape, South Africa
• Castle, primarily a defensive structure dating from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century
• Chalet bungalow, popular in England, a combination of a house and a bungalow
• Chattel house, a small wooden house occupied by working-class persons in Barbados
• Colonial house, a traditional style of house in the United States
• Cottage, usually a small country dwelling, but weavers' cottages are three-storied townhouses with the top floor reserved for the working quarters. A-frame is an interior style of house with steeply-angled sides (roofline that meet at the top in the shape of the letter A and a ceiling that is open to the top rafters This article refers to an architectural style For other meanings of Cape Cod see Cape Cod (disambiguation. Cape Dutch architecture is an architectural style found in the Western Cape of South Africa. A castle is a defensive structure seen as one of the main symbols of the Middle Ages. A bungalow (બંગલો baṅglo, बंगला baṅglā) is a type of single-storey House that originated in India. Chattel House is Barbadian slang for a small wooden House that Working class people would occupy Working class is a term used in academic Sociology and in ordinary conversation to describe depending on context and speaker those employed in specific fields or types Barbados ( Portuguese word for bearded-ones, bɑrˈbeɪdoʊz -dɒs situated just east of the Caribbean Sea, is an independent Island nation American colonial architecture includes several building design styles associated with the colonial period of the United States including First Period English (late-medieval In modern usage a cottage is a dwelling typically in a rural or semi-rural location (although there are cottage-style dwellings in cities
• Craftsman house
  • Deck House, custom-built post and beam homes using high-quality woods and masonry
• Creole cottage, a type of house native to the Gulf Coast of the United States, roughly corresponding to the location of the former settlements of French Louisiana
• Detached (free-standing), any house that is completely separated from its neighbours
  • Bungalow, a single-story house (not including optional basement)
  • Backsplit, multilevel house that appears as a bungalow from the front elevation
  • Frontsplit, multilevel house that appears as a two-story house in front and a bungalow in the back. The American Craftsman Style, or the American Arts and Crafts Movement, is an American domestic architectural, Interior design, and Decorative Creole cottage is a term loosely used to refer to a type of vernacular architecture Indigenous to the Gulf Coast of the United States. The Gulf Coast region of the United States comprises the coasts of states which border the Gulf of Mexico. Louisiana (La celina+mario) was the name of an administrative district of New France. A bungalow (બંગલો baṅglo, बंगला baṅglā) is a type of single-storey House that originated in India. It is the opposite of a backsplit and is a rare configuration.
  • Sidesplit, multilevel house where the different levels are visible from the front elevation
  • Link-detached, adjacent detached properties that do not have a party wall, but are linked by the garage(s) so forming a single frontage
  • Triple decker, a free-standing, multi-family dwelling most commonly found in Southern New England, in the US
  • Two-story, three-story
  • Ranch, a single-story house, usually with garage and basement
  • Lustron house, a type of prefab house
• Earth sheltered, using earth against building walls for external thermal mass, to reduce heat loss, and to maintain easily a steady indoor air temperature
• Farmhouse, the main residence on a farm
• Faux chateau (1980s - 90s), inflated U. A sidesplit is a Split level home configuration where the multiple levels are visible from the front elevation A triple-decker (also referred to as a three-decker) is a three-story Apartment building, typically of light-framed wood construction, where each Ranch-style houses (also American Ranch, California Ranch, Rambler or Rancher) is an American domestic Architectural style (although The Lustron houses were prefabricated steel houses developed in the post- World War II era United States in response to the shortage of Houses for returning Prefabrication is the practice of assembling components of a Structure in a Factory or other Manufacturing site and Transporting complete Earth sheltering is the architectural practice of using earth against building walls for external Thermal mass, to reduce heat loss and to easily maintain Farmhouse is a general term for the main house of a Farm. It is a type of Building or House which serves a Residential purpose in a A farm is an area of land including various structures devoted primarily to the practice of producing and managing food ( Produce, Grains, or Livestock S. suburban house with non-contextual French Provençal references
• Foursquare house
• Gambrel, also known as Dutch Gambrel
• Geodesic dome, pioneered by Buckminster Fuller
• Hawksley BL8 bungalow, aluminium-clad timber-framed house build in the UK in the 1950s^[1]
• Igloo, constructed of ice
• Indian vernacular
• Konak, a type of Turkish home in the Ottoman Empire
• Linked, rowhouse or semi-detached house that is linked only at the foundation. South San Jose (cropjpg||thumb|A suburban development in San Jose California. A gambrel (also known as a Dutch gambrel is a usually Symmetrical two-sided roof with two slopes on each side A geodesic dome is an almost spherical shell structure based on a network of Great circles ( Geodesics lying approximately on the surface of a Sphere Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller ( July 12, 1895 &ndash July 1, 1983) was an American Architect, Author An igloo ( Inuit language: iglu, Inuktitut syllabics: ᐃᒡᓗ "house" plural iglooit or igluit, but in English Indian vernacular architecture is the informal functional architecture of structures often in rural areas of India built of local materials and designed to meet the needs of the local Konak (konak is a large house in Turkey and in the former Ottoman Empire; especially one used as an official residence The Turkish people (Türk Halkı also known as " Turks " ( Türkler) are defined mainly as being speakers of Turkish as a First language The Ottoman Empire (1299–1923 ( Old Ottoman Turkish: دولتْ علیّه عثمانیّه Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye, Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish Above ground, it appears as a detached house. Linking the foundations reduces cost.
• Log cabin, a house built of unsquared timbers
• Mansion, a very large detached house
• McMansion, a formulaic, inflated suburban house with references to historical styles of architecture
• Manufactured home
• Mews property. A log cabin is a small house built from logs It is a fairly simple type of Log house. A mansion is a large dwelling House. The word itself derives (through Old French) from the Latin word mansus (the perfect passive participle McMansion is a pejorative Neologism, coined by NY environmentalist Jay Manufactured housing (also known as prefabricated housing) is a type of housing unit that is largely assembled in factories and then transported For other uses see Mew. Distinguish from Muse. For a mews in falconry see Mews (falconry. A mews is an urban stable-block that has been converted into residential properties. A stable is a Building in which Livestock, especially Horses are kept The houses are converted into ground floor garages with a small flat above which used to house the ostler.
• Microhouse, a dwelling that fulfils all the requirements of habitation (shelter, sleep, cooking, heating, toilet) in a highly compact space. Very common in Japan. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. See external links [1], [2], and [3] for examples of microhouses.
• Monolithic dome, a structure cast in one piece over a form, usually of concrete
• Microapartment, popular in Japan, single room containing kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, and living space in one place (usually on many floors)
• Mudhif, a traditional reed house made by the Madan people of Iraq. A monolithic dome (from Greek mono- and -lithic meaning "one stone" is a structure cast in one piece over a form usually of Concrete or similar structural material A mudhif is a traditional reed house made by the Madan people (also known as Marsh Arabs) in the swamps of southern Iraq.
  

  The interior of an Iraqi mudhif
• Octagon house, a house of symmetrical octagonal floor plan, popularized briefly during the 19th century by Orson Squire Fowler
• Patio home
• Pole house, a timber house in which a vertical poles carry the load of the suspended floors and roof, allowing all the walls to be non-loadbearing. REDIRECT Octagon House (disambiguation The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar Orson Squire Fowler ( October 11 1809 - August 18 1887) was a phrenologist who popularized the Octagon house in the A patio home is an American term for a type of housing The term tends to imply a suburban setting and a unit of several houses attached to each other typically with shared walls between
• Prefab, a house where the main structure is prefabricated (common after WWII)
• Queenslander, a house most commonly built in the tropics of Australia. Prefabricated building is a type of building that consists of several factory-built units that are assembled on-site to complete the unit Queenslander (or Old Queenslander Architecture is an architectural style common throughout Queensland, Australia. Raised on stilts to allow airflow underneath and with a wide verandah partially if not fully around the house.
• Ranch-style house (also known as American Ranch, California Ranch, Rambler or Rancher), a popular American house style from the 1920s to the 1960s
• Roundhouse, a type of house with a circular plan, built in Western Europe prior to the Roman occupation
• Saltbox, a style of house popular in colonial New England
• Split-level house, a style popular in the 1950s and 1960s
• Sears house, owner-built "kit" houses sold by Sears, Roebuck and Co. Ranch-style houses (also American Ranch, California Ranch, Rambler or Rancher) is an American domestic Architectural style (although The roundhouse is a type of house with a circular plan built in western Europe before the Roman occupation Ancient Rome was a Civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC A saltbox is a Wooden frame house with a long pitched Roof that slopes down to the back A split-level home is a style of House in which the floor level of one part of the house is about half way between a floor and its ceiling of the other part of the house Sears Catalog Homes (sold as Sears Modern Homes) were ready-to-assemble Houses sold through Mail order by Sears Roebuck and Company, an through its catalog division from 1906 to 1940
• Shack, a small, usually rundown, wooden building
• Shotgun house, a popular style of house in the Southern United States from the end of the Civil War (1861–65) through to the 1920s
• Souterrain, an earth dwelling typically deriving from Neolithic or Bronze Age times
• Stilt houses or pile dwellings, houses raised on stilts over the surface of the soil or a body of water
• Snout house, a house with the garage door being the closest part of the dwelling to the street
• Storybook houses, 1920s houses inspired by Hollywood set design
• Tipi
• Treehouse, a house built among the branches or around the trunk of one or more mature trees and does not rest on the ground
• Tudor, the style of architecture and decorative arts modeled on the original Tudor architecture produced in England between 1485 and 1603. A shack is a type of small House that is in disrepair The word may derive from the Nahuatl (Aztec word xacalli or "adobe house" by way of The shotgun house is a narrow rectangular domestic residence usually no more than 12  feet (3 Souterrain (from French 'sous terrain' meaning 'under ground' is a name given by Archaeologists to a type of underground structure associated mainly with the Atlantic Iron The Neolithic (from Greek νεολιθικός — neolithikos from νέος neos, "new" + λίθος lithos The term Bronze Age refers to a period in human cultural development when the most advanced Metalworking (at least in systematic and widespread use included techniques for Stilt houses or pile dwellings are houses raised on Piles over the surface of the soil or a body of water A snout house is a house that is constructed with an attached front entry garage that is closer to the street than any other part of the house A Storybook House refers to an architectural style popularized in the 1920s in England and America. A tipi' (also teepee, tepee) is a conical Tent originally made of animal skins or birch bark and popularized by the Native Americans Tree houses, treehouses, or tree forts, are buildings constructed among the Branches around or next to the trunk of one or more mature The Tudor style in architecture is the final development of medieval architecture during the Tudor period (1485&ndash1603 and even beyond for conservative college The term architecture (from Greek αρχιτεκτονικήarchitektoniki) can be used to mean a process a profession or documentation
  • Mock Tudor, a modern emulation of Tudor architecture
• Underground home, an underground dwelling
• Unit, a type of medium-density housing found in Australia and New Zealand
• Unity house, a type of low-cost dwelling built in the UK in the 1940s and 1950s, with walls of stacked concrete panels between concrete pillars. An underground home is a house or dwelling which lies either under the standard ground level on a flat piece of land or built into a hillside or mountain side In common speech in Australia and New Zealand the word unit, when referring to housing usually means either an apartment, (where a group of apartments is contained in one Medium density housing is a term used in Australia to describe residential developments that are at higher densities than standard low-density (or 'broadhectare' About 19,000 were constructed. ^[1]
• Vernacular house, house constructed in a native manner, close to nature, using the materials locally available

Example of an early Victorian "Gingerbread House" in the USA, built in 1855

• Victorian house
• Villa, originally an upper-class country house, though since its origins in Roman times the idea and function of a villa has evolved considerably
• Wimpey house, a low-cost house built in the UK from the 1940s onwards. A Victorian house is a term generally used to describe a house built during the Victorian era (1840-1904 a time of rapid industrialization in Europe and A villa was originally an Upper-class Country house, though since its origins in Roman times the idea and function of a villa has evolved considerably The Roman Republic was the phase of the ancient Roman civilization characterized by a Republican form of government a period which began with the overthrow of the The walls are of no-fines concrete. About 300,000 were constructed. ^[1]
• Yaodong, a dugout used as an abode or shelter in north China, especially on the Loess Plateau

Movable dwellings

• Houseboat, a floatating home on a water surface!
• Mobile home
• Park home: Also called mobile home, it is a prefabricated house that is manufactured off-site. This article is about artificial caves used as Dwellings, especially those in north China called yaodongs, as A dugout or dug-out, also known as a pithouse Pit-house, earth-house, mud hut, is a shelter for humans or domestic animals based on a hole House generally refers to a Shelter or Building that is a Dwelling or place for Habitation by Human beings. China ( Wade-Giles ( Mandarin) Chung¹kuo² is a cultural region, an ancient Civilization, and depending on perspective a National The Loess Plateau ( also known as the Huangtu Plateau is a Plateau that covers an area of some 640000 km² in the upper and middle of China 's A houseboat is a Boat that has been designed or modified to be used primarily as a Human Dwelling. Mobile homes or static caravans are prefabricated homes built in factories rather than on site and then taken to the place where they will be occupied Mobile homes or static caravans are prefabricated homes built in factories rather than on site and then taken to the place where they will be occupied
• Tent, usually a lightweight, moveable structure
• Travel trailer (alternative to caravan in British English)
• Yurt, used by nomads in the steppes of Central Asia

Attached dwellings / multi-unit housing

• Apartment: a relatively self-contained housing unit in a building which is often rented out to a family or one or more people for their exclusive use. A tent is a shelter consisting of sheets of fabric or other material draped over or attached to a frame of poles or attached to a supporting rope A travel trailer or caravan is a trailer towed behind a road Vehicle to provide a place to sleep which is more comfortable and protected than a A yurt is a portable Felt -covered wood lattice -framed dwelling structure used by Nomads in the Steppes of Central Asia. Nomadic people, (from the νομάδες nomádes, "those who let pasture herds" also known as nomads, are communities of people that In physical Geography, a steppe ( German, from степь - "a flat and arid land" степ - /stɛp/ тал - tal дала - /dɑlɑ/ pronounced Central Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east and from southern Russia in the north to northern Pakistan in the south Sometimes called a flat. Some locales have legal definitions of what constitutes an apartment. In some places 'apartment' denotes a building that was built of such units, while 'flat' denotes a unit in a building built originally as a single-family house and later subdivided. -
• Apartment building: a multi-unit dwelling made up of several (generally four or more) apartments.
• Apartment tower, block of flats or tower block: a high-rise apartment building
• Aul: a type of fortified village found throughout the Caucasus mountains, especially in Dagestan. A tower block, block of flats, or apartment block, is a multi-unit High-rise Apartment building. An aul ( Turkic: awıl) is a type of fortified Village found throughout the Caucasus mountains especially in Dagestan. A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet, but smaller than a Town or City. The Caucasus ( also referred to as North Caucasus) is a geopolitical region located between Europe Asia & Middle East The Republic of Dagestan dæɡɪˈstɑːn (IntEng ˈdeɪɡəstæn (AmEng (Респу́блика Дагеста́н Дагъистанлъул ДжумхIурият Daɣistanłul
• Bachelor apartment: a suite with a single room that doubles as living/sitting room and bedroom. The unit is designed for a single occupant or possibly a couple. Especially in Canada and South Africa, also called bachelor, or bachelorette if very small.
• Barracks, a type of military housing
• Brownstone: see rowhouse
• Bedsit: A UK expression (short for bed-sitting room) for a single-roomed dwelling which usually contains very sparse furniture and is very compact in design. Barracks are living quarters for personnel on a Military post Brownstone is a brown Triassic Sandstone which was once a popular Building material. In Architecture and City planning, a terrace(d or row house or townhouse (though the latter term can also refer to Patio houses A bedsit, also known as a bed-sitting room, is a form of rented accommodation common in Great Britain consisting of a single room with a shared bathroom and lavatory Literally a bed and a place to sit.
• Choultry: a South-Indian Hindu-Caravanserai. Choultry is a resting place for visitors where rooms and food are provided by a charitable institution for nominal rates A caravanserai ( kārvānsarā, Turkish kervansaray) was a roadside Inn where travelers could rest and recover from the day's journey
• Condominium: a form of ownership of an individual apartment and a percentage of common areas
• Co-op (or Housing cooperative), a form of ownership in which a non-profit corporation owns the entire apartment building or development and residents own shares in the corporation that correspond to their apartment and a percentage of common areas
• Duplex: Two separate residences, usually side-by-side, but sometimes on two different floors. A condominium, or condo, is a form of Housing tenure and other Real property where a specified part of a piece of real estate (usually of an apartment A housing cooperative is a legal entity—usually a Corporation —that owns Real estate, consisting of one or more residential buildings A housing cooperative is a legal entity—usually a Corporation —that owns Real estate, consisting of one or more residential buildings A duplex house is a dwelling comprising two units usually side-by-side but sometimes on two different floors House generally refers to a Shelter or Building that is a Dwelling or place for Habitation by Human beings. The former often looks like two houses put together, sharing a wall (see semi-detached); the latter usually appears as a townhouse, but with two different entrances. House generally refers to a Shelter or Building that is a Dwelling or place for Habitation by Human beings. The terms 'triplex' and 'four-plex' refer to similar structures with three or four units.
• Flat: an apartment, especially one taking up an entire floor of a house with several flats.
• 2-Flat, 3-Flat, and 4-Flat houses: Houses or buildings with 2, 3, or 4 flats, respectively, especially when each of the flats takes up one entire floor of the house. There is a common stairway in the front and often in the back providing access to all the flats. 2-Flats and sometimes 3-flats are common in certain older neighborhoods.
• Railroad flat: a type of apartment that is in a building built on a very narrow lot (usually about as wide as a railroad car, or Pullman car sections thereof), thus there is no room for a hallway. A railroad car or railway carriage is a Vehicle on a rail transport system (railroad or railway that is used for the carrying of Cargo or The sleeping car or sleeper is a railroad passenger car that can accommodate all its passengers in beds of one kind or another primarily for the purpose of making Several things are commonly known as Halls or halls. For the development of meaning of the word 'hall' see Hall (concept. Rooms are built end-to-end, one must pass through all the rooms to get from one end to the other of the apartment. : see Railroad_apartment
• Garden Apartment: a building style usually characterized by two story, semi-detached buildings, each floor being a separate apartment. A railroad apartment, or railroad flat, is an apartment with a series of rooms connecting to each other in a line
• Garden flat: a flat which is at garden (ground) level in a multilevel house or apartment building, especially in the case of Georgian and Victorian terraced housing which has been sub-divided into separate dwellings.
• Ksar: a village consisting of generally attached houses, widespread among the oasis populations of the Maghreb (northern Africa. A Ksar ( Arabic: قصر qaṣr) is a term describing a Village consisting of generally attached houses often having collective Granaries and A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet, but smaller than a Town or City. In Geography, an oasis (plural oases) or Cienega ( Southwestern United States) is an isolated area of vegetation in a Desert, typically The Maghreb (المغرب العربي al-Maġrib al-ʿArabī) also rendered Maghrib (or rarely Moghreb) meaning "place of Sunset )
• Housing project: A North American term for government-owned housing for low-income tenants (aka public housing or social housing)
• Maisonette: an apartment / flat on two levels with internal stairs, or which has its own entrance at street level. Public housing is a form of Housing tenure in which the property is owned by a Government authority which may be central or local Public housing is a form of Housing tenure in which the property is owned by a Government authority which may be central or local Public housing is a form of Housing tenure in which the property is owned by a Government authority which may be central or local
• Penthouse: The top floor of multi-story building
• Plattenbau (East German) / Panelák (Czech, Slovak) - a communist-era tower block that is made of slabs of concrete put together. A penthouse apartment or penthouse is an Apartment or Condominium that is on one of the highest floors of an Apartment building or condominium Plattenbau (plural Plattenbauten is the German word for a building whose structure is constructed of large prefabricated Concrete slabs The word The German Democratic Republic ( GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik DDR; commonly known in English as East Germany) was a Socialist state Panelák is the colloquial name of blocks of high-rise Panel buildings in the Czech Republic and Slovakia constructed of pre-fabricated pre-stressed The Czech Republic ( ˈt͡ʃɛskaː ˈrɛpuˌblɪka short form in Česko ˈt͡ʃɛskɔ also called Czechia, Slovakia (long form Slovak Republic; Slovak:, long form, is a Landlocked country in Central Europe with a population of over five million
• Tenement a multi-unit dwelling made up of several (generally four or more) apartments (i. e. an apartment building). In the United States the connotation implies a run-down or poorly-cared-for building.
• Loft or warehouse conversion
• Garage-apartment: An apartment over a garage; if the garage is attached, the apartment will have a separate entrance from the main house. Loft mainly refers to two different types of rooms It typically refers to an upper story or Attic in a Building, directly under the Roof Loft mainly refers to two different types of rooms It typically refers to an upper story or Attic in a Building, directly under the Roof
• Garalow: a portmateau word garage+bungalow; similar to a garage-apartment, but with the apartment and garage at the same level.
• Mother-in-law apartment: Small apartment either at the back or on an upper level of the main house, usually with a separate entrance (also known as a "granny flat" in the UK, Australia and New Zealand). Secondary suite is an Urban planning term for an additional separate dwelling unit on a property that would normally accommodate only one dwelling unit Secondary suite is an Urban planning term for an additional separate dwelling unit on a property that would normally accommodate only one dwelling unit The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. New Zealand is an Island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses (the North Island and the South Island If it is a separate structure from the main house, it is called a 'granny cottage' or a 'doddy house. '
• four-plus-one: an apartment building that has four floors of apartments on top of parking. It was particularly popular in Chicago during the 1960s and 1970s, especially on the city's north side. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States.
• Rooming house: a type of Single Room Occupancy building where most washing, kitchen and laundry facilities are shared. A boarding house, also known as a "rooming house" (mainly in the United States) or a "lodging house" is a House (often a family home The expression " single room occupancy " or more commonly "SRO" refers to a building that houses people in single rooms In Australia, any accommodation with 4 or more bedrooms can be regarded as a rooming house if each bedroom is subject to individual tenancy agreements.
• Rowhouse: (USA); also called "terraced home (USA); also called "townhouse"; ": 3 or more houses in a row sharing a "party" wall with its adjacent neighbour. In Architecture and City planning, a terrace(d or row house or townhouse (though the latter term can also refer to Patio houses In New York and Boston, "Brownstones" are rowhouses. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Brownstone is a brown Triassic Sandstone which was once a popular Building material. Rowhouses are typically multiple stories. The term townhouse is currently coming into wider use in the UK, but terraced house (not "terraced home") is more common.
• Semi-detached: two houses joined together; compare duplex. Semi-Detached (1998 was Therapy? 's last album for A&M Records. A duplex house is a dwelling comprising two units usually side-by-side but sometimes on two different floors
• Shophouse: the name given in Southeast Asia to a terraced two to five storey urban building featuring a shop or other public activity on the street level, with residential accommodation on upper floors. A shophouse is a vernacular architectural Building type that is both native and unique to urban Southeast Asia.
• Six-pack: In New England (USA), this refers to a stick-built block of 6 apartments comprising 2 duplexes side by side. History See also History of New England New England's earliest inhabitants were Algonquian -speaking Native Americans including the In Australia, it refers to a style of apartments that were constructed during the 1960s, 70s and early 80s, usually comprising a single, masonry-built block containing 4 to 8 walk-up apartments (though sometimes, many more), of between 2 and 3 stories in height, with car parking at the side or rear. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics.
• Studio apartment: A self-contained unit with one main room, one bathroom, and some closet space. A studio apartment ( studio flat in the United Kingdom) or an efficiency apartment or bachelor style apartment or Bachelorette There is no distinct bedroom in a studio: sleeping, cooking, dining, living is all done in the main room. Another word for it is 'efficiency'.
• Single Room Occupancy or SRO: A studio apartment, usually occurring with a block of many similar apartments, intended for use as public housing. The expression " single room occupancy " or more commonly "SRO" refers to a building that houses people in single rooms Public housing is a form of Housing tenure in which the property is owned by a Government authority which may be central or local They may or may not have their own washing, laundry, and kitchen facilities.
• Terraced house: Since the late 18th century is a style of housing where (generally) identical individual houses are conjoined into rows - a line of houses which abut directly on to each other built with shared party walls between dwellings whose uniform fronts and uniform height created an ensemble that was more stylish than a "rowhouse". In Architecture and City planning, a terrace(d or row house or townhouse (though the latter term can also refer to Patio houses The 18th century lasted from 1701 to 1800 in the Gregorian calendar, in accordance with the Anno Domini / Common Era numbering system However this is also the UK term for a "rowhouse" regardless of whether the houses are identical or not.
  • Back-to-back: Terraced houses which also adjoin a second terrace to the rear. Back-to-back houses are a form of Terraced house in which two houses share a rear wall (or in which the rear wall of a house directly abuts a factory or other building They were a common form of housing for workers during the Industrial Revolution in England. The Industrial Revolution was a period in the late 18th and early 19th centuries when major changes in agriculture manufacturing and transportation had a profound effect on the England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland

• Townhouse: also called rowhouse (US). Historically in the United Kingdom, Ireland and in many other countries a townhouse (or a "house in town" was a residence of a peer or member of the In the UK, a townhouse is a traditional term for an upper class house in London (in contrast with country house), and is now coming into use as a term for new terraced houses, which are often three stories tall with a garage on the ground floor. The English country house is generally accepted as a large House or Mansion, once in the ownership of an individual who also usually owned another Great
  • Stacked townhouse: Units are stacked on each other; units may be multilevel; all units have direct access from the outside

• Triple decker: a three-family apartment house, usually of frame construction, in which all three apartment units are stacked on top of one another. A triple-decker (also referred to as a three-decker) is a three-story Apartment building, typically of light-framed wood construction, where each
• Unit A type of Medium-density housing found in Australia and New Zealand. In common speech in Australia and New Zealand the word unit, when referring to housing usually means either an apartment, (where a group of apartments is contained in one Medium density housing is a term used in Australia to describe residential developments that are at higher densities than standard low-density (or 'broadhectare'

See also

• Cohousing
• Company town
• City block
• Home
• House
• Gated community
• Intentional Community
• Planned Unit Development
• Real estate
• Timeshare, form of vacation property

External links

• School Of Architecture