Houses
41
1 TYPES OF HOUSES and BUILDINGS
description
Types of houses
Transcript of Houses
1
TYPES OF HOUSES
and BUILDINGS
2
A detached house
3
• 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.
4
A semi-detached house
5
• 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.
6
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
9
Cottages
A cottage is usually found in a rural (sometimes village), or semi-rural location.
10
Bungalows
11
• A bungalow is a house which is all on ground level. Traditionally small, but today it can be quite large.
12
Block of flats
A red brick apartment block in East London, England, on the north bank of the Thames
14
• 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
15
Skyscrapers
16
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
17
A mansion
• A mansion is a very large house for the wealthy.
18
A country house
19
• 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.
20
21
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.
22
A mobile home
BrE a large caravan which always stays in the same place and is used as a house
23
Caravan
BrE a vehicle that a car can pull and in which people can live and sleep when they are on holiday = AmE trailer
24
A wigwam
It has a single room, and it wasused by certain
Native American tribes.
25
Tepees
26
An igloo
27
• 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.
28
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.
29
A boathouse
30
A chalet
a house with a steep sloping roof, common in places with high mountains and snow, such as Switzerland
31
Tents
32
Tree houses
a wooden structure built in the branches of a tree for children to play in
33
A log cabin
34
Shanty
35
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]
36
Bed-sit
BrEa rented room used for both living and sleeping in
37
Monastery / Convent
monasteries - a place where monks live
convent - a building or set of buildings where nuns live
38
Barn conversion
39
French windows
a pair of doors made mostly of glass, usually opening onto a garden or balcony
40
Thatched roof
41
