List of house types, the Glossary

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1. 180 relations: A-frame building, Adobe, Aggregate (composite), Airey house, Airman, Alaska, Aleuts, Arctic, Assam-type architecture, Avenue (landscape), Back lane, Barndominium, Bastle house, Battlement, Bawn, Boat, Bowling alley, Breezeway, Brittany, Broch, Bronze Age, Bungalow, Byelaw terraced house, Byre-dwelling, California bungalow, Cape Cod (house), Caravan (trailer), Castle, Central-passage house, Chalet, Charleston single house, Charleston, South Carolina, Chattel house, Chechnya, City block, Cohousing, Company town, Concrete, Connected farm, Conservatory (greenhouse), Converted barn, Cottage, Courtyard house, Dacha, Dogtrot house, Dormer, Dugout (shelter), Duplex (building), Earth shelter, Eaves, ... Expand index (130 more) »

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A-frame building

An A-frame building is an architectural style of building that features steeply-angled sides (roofline) that usually begin at or near the foundation line, and meet at the top in the shape of the letter A. An A-frame ceiling can be open to the top rafters.

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Adobe

Adobe is a building material made from earth and organic materials.

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Aggregate (composite)

Aggregate is the component of a composite material that resists compressive stress and provides bulk to the composite material.

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Airey house

An Airey house is a type of prefabricated house built in Great Britain following the Second World War.

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Airman

An airman is a member of an air force Or the Civil Air Patrol or air arm of a nation's armed forces.

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Alaska

Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.

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Aleuts

Aleuts (Aleuty) are the Indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands, which are located between the North Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea.

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Arctic

The Arctic is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth.

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Assam-type architecture

Assam-type architecture also known as "Beton" or "Baton" is an architectural style developed in the state of Assam in India during the late modern period. List of house types and Assam-type architecture are house styles and house types.

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Avenue (landscape)

In landscaping, an avenue (from the French), alameda (from the Portuguese and Spanish), or allée (from the French), is a straight path or road with a line of trees or large shrubs running along each side, which is used, as its Latin source venire ("to come") indicates, to emphasize the "coming to," or arrival at a landscape or architectural feature.

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Back lane

A back lane is a roadway often found in a planned medieval village running parallel to the main street at the other end of burgage plots.

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Barndominium

A barndominium, also known as a barndo, is a metal pole barn, post-frame or barn-like structure with sheet metal siding that has been partially or fully converted into a furnished home or living area. List of house types and barndominium are house types.

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Bastle house

Bastel, bastle, or bastille houses are a type of construction found along the Anglo-Scottish border, in the areas formerly plagued by border reivers.

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Battlement

A battlement, in defensive architecture, such as that of city walls or castles, comprises a parapet (a defensive low wall between chest-height and head-height), in which gaps or indentations, which are often rectangular, occur at intervals to allow for the launch of arrows or other projectiles from within the defences.

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Bawn

A bawn is the defensive wall surrounding an Irish tower house.

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Boat

A boat is a watercraft of a large range of types and sizes, but generally smaller than a ship, which is distinguished by its larger size or capacity, its shape, or its ability to carry boats.

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Bowling alley

A bowling alley (also known as a bowling center, bowling lounge, bowling arena, or historically bowling club) is a facility where the sport of bowling is played.

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Breezeway

A breezeway is an architectural feature similar to a hallway that allows the passage of a breeze between structures to accommodate high winds, allow aeration, or provide aesthetic design variation.

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Brittany

Brittany (Bretagne,; Breizh,; Gallo: Bertaèyn or Bertègn) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the north-west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation.

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Broch

In archaeology, a broch is an Iron Age drystone hollow-walled structure found in Scotland.

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.

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Bungalow

A bungalow is a small house or cottage that is single-storey, and may be surrounded by wide verandas. List of house types and bungalow are house types.

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Byelaw terraced house

A byelaw terraced house is a type of dwelling built to comply with the Public Health Act 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 55). List of house types and byelaw terraced house are house styles and house types.

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Byre-dwelling

A byre-dwelling ("byre"+ "dwelling") is a farmhouse in which the living quarters are combined with the livestock and/or grain barn under the same roof. List of house types and byre-dwelling are house styles and house types.

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California bungalow

California bungalow is an alternative name for the American Craftsman style of residential architecture, when it was applied to small-to-medium-sized homes rather than the large "ultimate bungalow" houses of designers like Greene and Greene. List of house types and California bungalow are house styles and house types.

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Cape Cod (house)

A Cape Cod house is a low, broad, single or double-story frame building with a moderately-steep-pitched gabled roof, a large central chimney, and very little ornamentation. List of house types and Cape Cod (house) are house styles.

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Caravan (trailer)

A caravan, travel trailer, camper, tourer or camper trailer is a trailer towed behind a road vehicle to provide a place to sleep which is more comfortable and protected than a tent (although there are fold-down trailer tents).

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Castle

A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders.

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Central-passage house

The central-passage house, also known variously as central hall plan house, center-hall house, hall-passage-parlor house, Williamsburg cottage, and Tidewater-type cottage, was a vernacular, or folk form, house type from the colonial period onward into the 19th century in the United States. List of house types and central-passage house are house types.

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Chalet

A chalet (pronounced in British English; in American English usually), also called Swiss chalet, is a type of building or house, typical of the Alpine region in Europe. List of house types and chalet are house styles.

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Charleston single house

A Charleston single house is a form of house found in Charleston, South Carolina. List of house types and Charleston single house are house styles.

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Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston metropolitan area.

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Chattel house

Chattel house is a Barbadian term for a small moveable wooden house that working class people would occupy. List of house types and Chattel house are house types.

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Chechnya

Chechnya, officially the Chechen Republic, is a republic of Russia.

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City block

A city block, residential block, urban block, or simply block is a central element of urban planning and urban design.

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Cohousing

Cohousing is an intentional, self-governing, cooperative community where residents live in private homes often clustered around shared space.

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Company town

A company town is a place where practically all stores and housing are owned by the one company that is also the main employer.

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Concrete

Concrete is a composite material composed of aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement that cures to a solid over time.

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Connected farm

A connected farm is an architectural design common in the New England region of the United States, and England and Wales in the United Kingdom. List of house types and connected farm are house types.

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Conservatory (greenhouse)

A conservatory is a building or room having glass or other transparent roofing and walls, used as a greenhouse or a sunroom.

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Converted barn

The conversion of barns involves the conversion of old farming barns to structures of commercial or residential use. List of house types and Converted barn are house types.

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Cottage

A cottage, during England's feudal period, was the holding by a cottager (known as a cotter or bordar) of a small house with enough garden to feed a family and in return for the cottage, the cottager had to provide some form of service to the manorial lord. List of house types and cottage are house types.

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Courtyard house

A courtyard house is a type of house—often a large house—where the main part of the building is disposed around a central courtyard. List of house types and courtyard house are house types.

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Dacha

A dacha (Belarusian, Ukrainian and a) is a seasonal or year-round second home, often located in the exurbs of post-Soviet countries, including Russia. List of house types and dacha are house types.

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Dogtrot house

The dogtrot, also known as a breezeway house, dog-run, or possum-trot, is a style of house that was common throughout the Southeastern United States during the 19th and early 20th centuries. List of house types and dogtrot house are house types.

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Dormer

A dormer is a roofed structure, often containing a window, that projects vertically beyond the plane of a pitched roof.

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Dugout (shelter)

A dugout or dug-out, also known as a pit-house or earth lodge, is a shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground. List of house types and dugout (shelter) are house types.

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Duplex (building)

A duplex house plan has two living units attached to each other, either next to each other as townhouses, condominiums or above each other like apartments. List of house types and duplex (building) are house types.

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Earth shelter

An earth shelter, also called an earth house, earth bermed house, or underground house, is a structure (usually a house) with earth (soil) against the walls, on the roof, or that is entirely buried underground. List of house types and earth shelter are house types.

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Eaves

The eaves are the edges of the roof which overhang the face of a wall and, normally, project beyond the side of a building.

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Edwin Airey

Sir Edwin Airey (7 February 1878 – 14 March 1955) was a British civil engineer and industrialist responsible for the Airey prefabricated houses constructed in the UK after the Second World War.

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Factory

A factory, manufacturing plant or production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another.

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Farmhouse

A farmhouse is a building that serves as the primary quarters in a rural or agricultural setting. List of house types and farmhouse are house styles and house types.

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Frontage

Frontage is the boundary between a plot of land or a building and the road onto which the plot or building fronts.

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Frontier

A frontier is a political and geographical term referring to areas near or beyond a boundary.

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Gable

A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches.

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Gablefront house

A gablefront house, also known as a gable front house or front gable house, is a vernacular (or "folk") house type in which the gable is facing the street or entrance side of the house. List of house types and gablefront house are house styles.

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A gated community (or walled community) is a form of residential community or housing estate containing strictly controlled entrances for pedestrians, bicycles, and automobiles, and often characterized by a closed perimeter of walls and fences.

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Geestharden house

The Geestharden house (Geesthardenhaus), also called the Cimbrian house (Cimbrisches Haus), Schleswig house (Schleswiger Haus), Slesvig house (Slesvigsk gård) or Southern Jutland house (Sønderjysk gård) due to its geographical spread in Jutland, is one of three basic forms on which the many farmhouse types in the north German state of Schleswig-Holstein are based. List of house types and Geestharden house are house styles.

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Government

A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state.

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Greek Revival architecture in North America

American Greek Revival was an architectural style popular in the United States and Canada from about 1800 to 1860. List of house types and Greek Revival architecture in North America are house styles.

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Greenhouse

A greenhouse is a special structure that is designed to regulate the temperature and humidity of the environment inside.

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Hall and parlor house

A hall-and-parlor house is a type of vernacular house found in early-modern to 19th century England, as well as in colonial North America. List of house types and hall and parlor house are house types.

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Hall house

The hall house is a type of vernacular house traditional in many parts of England, Wales, Ireland and lowland Scotland, as well as northern Europe, during the Middle Ages, centring on a hall. List of house types and hall house are house types.

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Home

A home, or domicile, is a space used as a permanent or semi-permanent residence for one or more human occupants, and sometimes various companion animals.

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Horse

The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal.

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Hostler

A hostler or ostler was traditionally a groom or stableman who was employed in a stable to take care of horses, usually at an inn, in the era of transportation by horse or horse-drawn carriage.

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House

A house is a single-unit residential building.

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Housebarn

A housebarn (also house-barn or house barn) is a building that is a combination of a house and a barn under the same roof. List of house types and housebarn are house types.

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Houseboat

A houseboat is a boat that has been designed or modified to be used primarily for regular dwelling. List of house types and houseboat are house types.

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Hut

A hut is a small dwelling, which may be constructed of various local materials.

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I-house

The I-house is a vernacular house type, popular in the United States from the colonial period onward. List of house types and i-house are house types.

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Igloo

An igloo (Inuit languages: iglu, Inuktitut syllabics ᐃᒡᓗ (plural: igluit ᐃᒡᓗᐃᑦ)), also known as a snow house or snow hut, is a type of shelter built of suitable snow. List of house types and igloo are house types.

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Ingushetia

Ingushetia or Ingushetiya, officially the Republic of Ingushetia, is a republic of Russia located in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe.

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An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork.

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Inuit

Inuit (ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, ᐃᓄᒃ, dual: Inuuk, ᐃᓅᒃ; Iñupiaq: Iñuit 'the people'; Greenlandic: Inuit) are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America, including Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, Yukon (traditionally), Alaska, and Chukotsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia.

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Izba

An izba (a) is a traditional Russian countryside dwelling. List of house types and izba are house types.

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Keep

A keep is a type of fortified tower built within castles during the Middle Ages by European nobility.

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Kit house

Kit houses, also known as mill-cut houses, pre-cut houses, ready-cut houses, mail order homes, or catalog homes, were a type of housing that was popular in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere in the first half of the 20th century.

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Laneway house

A laneway house is a form of detached secondary suites in Canada built into pre-existing lots, usually in the backyard and opening onto the back lane. List of house types and laneway house are house types.

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Linked house

A linked house is a type of house whereby the homes above ground appear to be detached, but they share a common wall in the basement or foundation. List of house types and linked house are house types.

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List of house styles

This list of house styles lists styles of vernacular architecture – i.e., outside any academic tradition – used in the design of houses. List of house types and list of house styles are design-related lists and house styles.

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Loess Plateau

The Chinese Loess Plateau, or simply the Loess Plateau, is a plateau in north-central China formed of loess, a clastic silt-like sediment formed by the accumulation of wind-blown dust.

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Log cabin

A log cabin is a small log house, especially a minimally finished or less architecturally sophisticated structure. List of house types and log cabin are house types.

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Log house

A log house, or log building, is a structure built with horizontal logs interlocked at the corners by notching. List of house types and log house are house styles and house types.

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Longère

Longère is the name (la longère in French) for a long, narrow dwelling, developing along the axis of its peak, typically inhabited by farmers and artisans and typical of the regions of Brittany and Normandy in northwestern France. List of house types and longère are house types.

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Longhouse

A longhouse or long house is a type of long, proportionately narrow, single-room building for communal dwelling. List of house types and longhouse are house types.

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Lustron house

Lustron houses are prefabricated enameled steel houses developed in the post-World War II era United States in response to the shortage of homes for returning G.I.s by Chicago industrialist and inventor Carl Strandlund.

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Mansion

A mansion is a large dwelling house. List of house types and mansion are house types.

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Manufactured housing

Manufactured housing (commonly known as mobile homes in the United States) is a type of prefabricated housing that is largely assembled in factories and then transported to sites of use. List of house types and Manufactured housing are house types.

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Mews

A mews is a row or courtyard of stables and carriage houses with living quarters above them, built behind large city houses before motor vehicles replaced horses in the early twentieth century. List of house types and mews are house types.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Mobile home

A mobile home (also known as a house trailer, park home, trailer, or trailer home) is a prefabricated structure, built in a factory on a permanently attached chassis before being transported to site (either by being towed or on a trailer).

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Modular building

A modular building is a prefabricated building that consists of repeated sections called modules.

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Mudbrick

Mudbrick or mud-brick, also known as unfired brick, is an air-dried brick, made of a mixture of mud (containing loam, clay, sand and water) mixed with a binding material such as rice husks or straw.

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Multifamily residential

Multifamily residential, also known as multidwelling unit (MDU)) is a classification of housing where multiple separate housing units for residential inhabitants are contained within one building or several buildings within one complex. Units can be next to each other (side-by-side units), or stacked on top of each other (top and bottom units). List of house types and Multifamily residential are house types.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.

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Normandy

Normandy (Normandie; Normaundie, Nouormandie; from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy.

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Octagon house

Octagon houses are eight-sided houses that were popular in the United States and Canada mostly in the 1850s. List of house types and Octagon house are house styles.

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Ontario cottage

The Ontario cottage is a style of house that was commonly built in 19th century Ontario, Canada. List of house types and Ontario cottage are house types.

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Orson Squire Fowler

Orson Squire Fowler (October 11, 1809 – August 18, 1887) was an American phrenologist and lecturer.

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Outbuilding

An outbuilding, sometimes called an accessory building or a dependency, is a building that is part of a residential or agricultural complex but detached from the main sleeping and eating areas.

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Palace

A palace is a large residence, often serving as a royal residence or the home for a head of state or another high-ranking dignitary, such as a bishop or archbishop.

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Patio

A patio (from patio; "courtyard", "forecourt", "yard", "little garden") is an outdoor space generally used for dining or recreation that adjoins a structure and is typically paved.

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Patio home

A patio home or cluster home is an American house in a suburban setting. List of house types and patio home are house styles.

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Peel tower

Peel towers (also spelt pele) are small fortified keeps or tower houses, built along the English and Scottish borders in the Scottish Marches and North of England, mainly between the mid-14th century and about 1600.

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Pit-house

A pit-house (or pit house, pithouse) is a house built in the ground and used for shelter. List of house types and pit-house are house types.

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Plank house

A plank house is a type of house constructed by indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest, typically using cedar planks.

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Planned unit development

A planned unit development (PUD) is a type of flexible, non-Euclidean zoning device that redefines the land uses allowed within a stated land area.

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Pole building framing

Pole framing or post-frame construction (pole building framing, pole building, pole barn) is a simplified building technique that is an alternative to the labor-intensive traditional timber framing technique.

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Precast concrete

Precast concrete is a construction product produced by casting concrete in a reusable mold or "form" which is then cured in a controlled environment, transported to the construction site and maneuvered into place; examples include precast beams, and wall panels, floors, roofs, and piles.

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Prefabricated building

A prefabricated building, informally a prefab, is a building that is manufactured and constructed using prefabrication.

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Prefabricated home

Prefabricated homes, often referred to as prefab homes or simply prefabs, are specialist dwelling types of prefabricated building, which are manufactured off-site in advance, usually in standard sections that can be easily shipped and assembled. List of house types and prefabricated home are house styles and house types.

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Prefabrication

Prefabrication is the practice of assembling components of a structure in a factory or other manufacturing site, and transporting complete assemblies or sub-assemblies to the construction site where the structure is to be located.

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Rammed earth

Rammed earth is a technique for constructing foundations, floors, and walls using compacted natural raw materials such as earth, chalk, lime, or gravel.

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Ranch-style house

Ranch (also known as American ranch, California ranch, rambler, or rancher) is a domestic architectural style that originated in the United States. List of house types and ranch-style house are house styles and house types.

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Real estate

Real estate is property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as growing crops (e.g. timber), minerals or water, and wild animals; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more generally) buildings or housing in general.

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Real property

In English common law, real property, real estate, immovable property or, solely in the US and Canada, realty, refers to parcels of land and any associated structures which are the property of a person.

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Recreational vehicle

A recreational vehicle, often abbreviated as RV, is a motor vehicle or trailer that includes living quarters designed for accommodation.

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Riad (architecture)

A riad or riyad (riyāḍ) is a type of garden courtyard historically associated with house and palace architecture in the Maghreb and al-Andalus. List of house types and riad (architecture) are house styles and house types.

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Rock (geology)

In geology, rock (or stone) is any naturally occurring solid mass or aggregate of minerals or mineraloid matter.

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Roundhouse (dwelling)

A roundhouse is a type of house with a circular plan, usually with a conical roof. List of house types and roundhouse (dwelling) are house types.

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Ruler

A ruler, sometimes called a rule, scale or a line gauge, is an instrument used to make length measurements, whereby a user estimates a length by reading from a series of markings called "rules" along an edge of the device.

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Sanheyuan

Sanheyuan (Chinese:; pinyin: sānhéyuàn; Wade–Giles: san1-ho2-yüan4) is a historical type of residence that was commonly found throughout China and Taiwan. Sanheyuan have structures on three sides of a courtyard, forming an inverted U-shape, resembling the Chinese character 凹 (āo). List of house types and Sanheyuan are house types.

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Schleswig-Holstein

Schleswig-Holstein (Slesvig-Holsten; Sleswig-Holsteen; Slaswik-Holstiinj; Sleswick-Holsatia) is the northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical Duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig.

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Sears

Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began as a mail ordering catalog company migrating to opening retail locations in 1925, the first in Chicago.

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Sears Modern Homes

Sears Modern Homes were houses sold primarily through mail order catalog by Sears, Roebuck and Co., an American retailer.

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Semi-detached

A semi-detached house (often abbreviated to semi) is a single-family duplex dwelling that shares one common wall with its neighbour. List of house types and semi-detached are house types.

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Shotgun house

A shotgun house is a narrow rectangular domestic residence, usually no more than about wide, with rooms arranged one behind the other and doors at each end of the house. List of house types and shotgun house are house styles and house types.

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Siberia

Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.

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Siheyuan

A siheyuan (IPA) is a historical type of residence that was commonly found throughout China, most famously in Beijing and rural Shanxi. List of house types and siheyuan are house styles and house types.

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Single- and double-pen architecture

Single-pen architecture and double-pen architecture are architectural styles for design of log, and sometimes stone or brick pioneer houses found in the United States.

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Single-family detached home

A single-family detached home, also called a single-detached dwelling, single-family residence (SFR) or separate house is a free-standing residential building. List of house types and single-family detached home are house types.

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Slope house

Slope house or Souterrain house is a house with soil or rock completely covering the bottom floor on one side and partly two of the walls on the bottom floor. List of house types and Slope house are house types.

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Snout house

A snout house is a house with a protruding garage that takes up most of the street frontage. List of house types and snout house are house types.

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Sod house

The sod house or soddy was an often used alternative to the log cabin during frontier settlement of the Great Plains of Canada and the United States in the 1800s and early 1900s. List of house types and sod house are house types.

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Soil

Soil, also commonly referred to as earth or dirt, is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support the life of plants and soil organisms.

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Souterrain

Souterrain (from French sous terrain, meaning "under ground") is a name given by archaeologists to a type of underground structure associated mainly with the European Atlantic Iron Age. List of house types and Souterrain are house types.

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Spite house

A spite house is a building constructed or substantially modified to irritate neighbors or any party with land stakes.

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Split-level home

A split-level home (sometimes called a tri-level home) is a style of house in which the floor levels are staggered. List of house types and split-level home are house styles.

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Stable

A stable is a building in which livestock, especially horses, are kept.

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Stilt house

Stilt houses (also called pile dwellings or lake dwellings) are houses raised on stilts (or piles) over the surface of the soil or a body of water. List of house types and stilt house are house types.

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Street

A street is a public thoroughfare in a built environment.

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Sustainable design

Environmentally sustainable design (also called environmentally conscious design, eco-design, etc.) is the philosophy of designing physical objects, the built environment, and services to comply with the principles of ecological sustainability and also aimed at improving the health and comfort of occupants in a building.

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Temperature

Temperature is a physical quantity that quantitatively expresses the attribute of hotness or coldness.

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Tent

A tent is a shelter consisting of sheets of fabric or other material draped over, attached to a frame of poles or a supporting rope.

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Terraced house

A terrace, terraced house (UK), or townhouse (US) is a kind of medium-density housing that first started in 16th century Europe with a row of joined houses sharing side walls. List of house types and terraced house are house styles and house types.

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The House of the Seven Gables

The House of the Seven Gables: A Romance is a Gothic novel written beginning in mid-1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in April 1851 by Ticknor and Fields of Boston.

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Three-decker (house)

A three-decker, triple-decker triplex or stacked triplex, in the United States, is a three-story (triplex) apartment building.

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Timber framing

Timber framing and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs.

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A timeshare (sometimes called a vacation ownership or vacation club) is a property with a divided form of ownership or use rights.

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Tiny-house movement

The tiny-house movement is an architectural and social movement promoting the reduction and simplification of living spaces. List of house types and tiny-house movement are house types.

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Tipi

A tipi or tepee is a conical lodge tent that is distinguished from other conical tents by the smoke flaps at the top of the structure, and historically made of animal hides or pelts or, in more recent generations, of canvas stretched on a framework of wooden poles. List of house types and tipi are house types.

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Total institution

A total institution or residential institution is a place of work and residence where a great number of similarly situated people, cut off from the wider community for a considerable time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered round of life.

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Tower

A tower is a tall structure, taller than it is wide, often by a significant factor.

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Tower house

A tower house is a particular type of stone structure, built for defensive purposes as well as habitation.

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Tower houses in the Balkans

A distinctive type of Ottoman tower houses (kullë; кули,; кула, culă, all meaning "tower", from Arabic (“fort, fortress”) via Persian, meaning "mountain" or "top", and Turkish) developed and were built in the Balkans,Greville Pounds 1994,: "In southeastern Europe, where the extended family was exemplified as nowhere else in the western world, the home itself was often protected, giving rise to the kula or tower- house." including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia and Serbia, as well as in Oltenia, in Romania, after the Ottoman conquest in the Middle Ages by both Christian and Muslim communities. List of house types and tower houses in the Balkans are house styles.

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Townhouse

A townhouse, townhome, town house, or town home, is a type of terraced housing. List of house types and townhouse are house styles.

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Townhouse (Great Britain)

In British usage, the term townhouse originally referred to the opulent town or city residence (in practice normally in Westminster near the seat of the monarch) of a member of the nobility or gentry, as opposed to their country seat, generally known as a country house or, colloquially, for the larger ones, stately home. List of house types and townhouse (Great Britain) are house styles.

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Tree house

A tree house, tree fort or treeshed, is a platform or building constructed around, next to or among the trunk or branches of one or more mature trees while above ground level. List of house types and tree house are house types.

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Trullo

A trullo (plural, trulli) is a traditional Apulian dry stone hut with a conical roof. List of house types and trullo are house types.

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Underground living

Underground living refers to living below the ground's surface, whether in natural or manmade caves or structures (earth shelters).

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Upper Lusatian house

The Upper Lusatian house (Podstávkový dům) or Umgebindehaus is a special type of house that combines log house, timber-framing and building stone methods of construction. List of house types and Upper Lusatian house are house styles.

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Upright and Wing

Upright and Wing, also referred to as Temple and Wing or Gable Front and Wing, is a residential architectural style found in American vernacular architecture of New England and the Upper Midwest, specifically associated with the American Greek Revival. List of house types and Upright and Wing are house styles.

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Uthland-Frisian house

The Uthland-Frisian house (Uthlandfriesisches Haus or Uthländisches HausVollmer, Manfred et al. (2001). Landscape and Cultural Heritage in the Wadden Sea Region, Wadden Sea Ecosystem No. 12 - 2001, CWSS, Wilhelmshaven, p.318. Frisergård or Frisisk gård), a variation of the Geestharden house, is a type of farmhouse that, for centuries, dominated the North Frisian Uthlande, that is the North Frisian Islands, the Halligen and the marshlands of northwest Germany.

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Vainakh tower architecture

The Vainakh tower architecture (Вайнахи Гlала архитектур/Вайнахи вовнийн архитектур), also called Nakh architecture, is a characteristic feature of ancient and medieval architecture of Chechnya and Ingushetia.

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Villa

A villa is a type of house that was originally an ancient Roman upper class country house. List of house types and villa are house styles and house types.

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Wattle and daub

Wattle and daub is a composite building method used for making walls and buildings, in which a woven lattice of wooden strips called "wattle" is "daubed" with a sticky material usually made of some combination of wet soil, clay, sand, animal dung and straw.

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Wealden hall house

The Wealden hall house is a type of vernacular medieval timber-framed hall house traditional in the south east of England.

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Weavers' cottage

A weavers' cottage was (and to an extent still is) a type of house used by weavers for cloth production in the putting-out system sometimes known as the domestic system.

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Weaving

Weaving is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth.

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Welsh Tower houses

Welsh tower houses were fortified stone houses that were built between the early 14th and 15th centuries.

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Wimpey no-fines house

The Wimpey No-fines House was a construction method and series of house designs produced by the George Wimpey company and intended for mass-production of social housing for families, developed under the Ministry of Works post-World War II Emergency Factory Made programme.

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Wood

Wood is a structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.

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Working class

The working class is a subset of employees who are compensated with wage or salary-based contracts, whose exact membership varies from definition to definition.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Yaodong

A yaodong (natively 窰 in Jin Chinese, or 窰洞 yáodòng in Beijing Mandarin) is a particular form of earth shelter dwelling common in the Loess Plateau in China's north.

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Yeoman

Yeoman is a noun originally referring either to one who owns and cultivates land or to the middle ranks of servants in an English royal or noble household.

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Yupik peoples

The Yupik (Юпикские народы) are a group of Indigenous or Aboriginal peoples of western, southwestern, and southcentral Alaska and the Russian Far East.

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Yurt

A yurt (from the Turkic languages) or ger (Mongolian) is a portable, round tent covered and insulated with skins or felt and traditionally used as a dwelling by several distinct nomadic groups in the steppes and mountains of Inner Asia. List of house types and yurt are house types.

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See also

• Garden ornament
• Index of color-related articles
• List of Alexander McQueen collections
• List of Danish furniture designers
• List of airline liveries and logos
• List of chairs
• List of decorative stones
• List of design awards
• List of fashion designers
• List of furniture designers
• List of furniture types
• List of garden features
• List of garden types
• List of house styles
• List of house types
• List of industrial designers
• List of institutions offering type design education
• List of jewellery designers
• List of jewellery types
• List of sailboat designers and manufacturers
• List of type designers
• List of works by Erich Mendelsohn
• Lists of colors
• Timeline of architectural styles

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_house_types

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