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TYPES OF HOUSES

and BUILDINGS

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A detached house

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• It is a residential building.

• Generally found in less dense urban areas, the suburbs of cities, and rural areas.

• Surrounded by a garden.

• Garages can also be found.

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A semi-detached house

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• They consist of pairs of houses built side by side as units

• They share a party wall

• Usually each house's layout is a mirror image of its twin

• This type of housing is a half-way state between terraced and detached houses.

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Terraced houses

A terrace(d) or row house, is a style of housing in use since the late 17th century. A row of identical or mirror-image houses share side walls. The first and last of these houses is called an end terrace.

7Royal Crescent in Bath

8Terraced houses at Fortuneswell, Dorset, UK

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Cottages

A cottage is usually found in a rural (sometimes village), or semi-rural location.

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Bungalows

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• A bungalow is a house which is all on ground level. Traditionally small, but today it can be quite large.

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Block of flats

A red brick apartment block in East London, England, on the north bank of the Thames

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A penthouse

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• A penthouse is a very expensive apartment on the top floor of the building

• Often occupies the entire floor

• May have a private entrance or lift

• Associated with a luxury lifestyle

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Skyscrapers

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A villa

• British English a house that you use or rent while you are on holiday

• a big house in the country with a large garden• an ancient Roman house or farm with land surrounding

it

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A mansion

• A mansion is a very large house for the wealthy.

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A country house

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• The English country house is generally a large house or mansion

• It was a weekend retreat for aristocrats as well as a full time residence for some aristocrats

• It has at least 25 rooms and at least 8,000 square feet (740 m²) of floor space, including service rooms.

• Built at different ages and in various architectural styles.

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A stately home• These houses

became a status symbol for the great families of England.

• Country houses and stately homes are sometimes confused —while a country house is always in the country, a stately home can also be in a town.

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A mobile home

BrE a large caravan which always stays in the same place and is used as a house

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Caravan

BrE a vehicle that a car can pull and in which people can live and sleep when they are on holiday = AmE trailer

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A wigwam

It has a single room, and it wasused by certain

Native American tribes.

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Tepees

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An igloo

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• An igloo, translated sometimes as snowhouse, is a shelter constructed from blocks of snow, generally in the form of a DOME

• Predominantly constructed by people of Canada's Central Arctic and Greenlands Thule area.

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Houseboats

It is a boat that has been designed to be used primarily as a human dwelling. Some are not motorised, because they are usually kept stationary at a fixed point.

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A boathouse

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A chalet

a house with a steep sloping roof, common in places with high mountains and snow, such as Switzerland

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Tents

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Tree houses

a wooden structure built in the branches of a tree for children to play in

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A log cabin

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Shanty

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Dormitory

especially BrE a large room for several people to sleep in, for example in a boarding school or hostelAmE a large building at a college or university where students live [= HALL OF RESIDENCE BrE]

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Bed-sit

BrEa rented room used for both living and sleeping in

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Monastery / Convent

monasteries - a place where monks live

convent - a building or set of buildings where nuns live

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Barn conversion

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French windows

a pair of doors made mostly of glass, usually opening onto a garden or balcony

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Thatched roof

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