This document provides an overview of different types of houses and buildings, describing their key characteristics in 1-3 sentences each. It covers detached houses, semi-detached houses, terraced houses, cottages, bungalows, blocks of flats, penthouses, skyscrapers, villas, mansions, country houses, stately homes, townhouses, mobile homes, caravans, stilt houses, wigwams, tepees, igloos, houseboats, boathouses, chalets, tents, tree houses, log cabins, shanties, dormitories, bed-sits, monasteries/convents, cathedrals, barn conversions, and different

1. TYPES OF
HOUSES and
BUILDINGS
Danica Kubi
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Hugo Treffner Gymansium

2. A detached house
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3. • It is a free-standing 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 on most
lots.
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5. A semi-detached house
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6. • 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
• Symbolic of the suburbanisation of
the United Kingdom and Ireland
• This type of housing is a half-way
state between terraced and detached
houses.
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8. 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
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last of these houses is called an end terrace.

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10. Royal Crescent in Bath
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11. Terraced houses at Fortuneswell, Dorset, UK
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12. Cottages
A cottage is a dwelling, typically in a
rural (sometimes village), or semi-rural
location. It is usually one and a half
storey property.
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14. Bungalows
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15. • A bungalow is a house which is all on
ground level. Traditionally small, but
today it can be quite large.
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16. Block of flats
A red brick apartment block in East London,
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England, on the north bank of the Thames

17. • A block of flats (BrE) or an
apartment building (AmE) is a
multi-unit dwelling made up of
several apartments (US) or flats
(UK)
• If the building is a high-rise
construction, it is termed a tower
block in the UK
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18. A penthouse
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19. • A penthouse is a very expnesive
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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20. Skyscrapers
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21. 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
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surrounding it

22. A mansion - häärber
• A mansion is a very large and stately
dwelling house for the wealthy. 22

23. A country house
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24. • 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 and for
the minor gentry (maa-aadel)
• 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
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architectural styles.

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26. 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
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28. A townhouse
Leinster House, 18th century Dublin townhouse of the
Duke of Leinster. It is now the seat of parliament
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29. • Historically in UK and Ireland, a
townhouse (or a "house in town")
was a residence of a peer or member
of the aristocracy in the capital or
major city.
• Most such figures owned one or more
country houses in which they lived for
much of the year.
• They moved to town when the
Parliament was in session
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30. • In the United Kingdom and Ireland most townhouses were
terraced.
• Only a small minority, generally the largest, were detached.
• Even aristocrats whose country houses had grounds of
hundreds of acres, often lived in terraced houses in town.
Henrietta
Street, it
contains some
of the oldest
and largest
Georgian
townhouses in
Dublin.
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31. A mobile home
BrE a large caravan which always stays in the
same place and is used as a house
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32. Caravan
BrE a vehicle that a car can pull and in which people
can live and sleep when they are on holiday = AmE
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trailer

33. Stilt houses in Cempa, located in the Lingga Islands of Indonesia
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34. Stilt houses
• Stilt houses or pile dwellings are
houses raised on piles over the
surface of the soil or a body of water
• Todat stilt houses are still common in
parts of South East Asia, Papua New
Guinea and West Africa.
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35. A wigwam
It is a single room dwelling used by certain Native American tribes.
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36. Tepees
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37. • A tipi (also teepee, tepee) is a
conical tent originally made of animal
skins or birch bark
• Popularized by the American
Indians of the Great Plains
• The dwelling was remarkably durable,
and gave warmth and comfort during
harsh winters, it was dry during heavy
rains, and cool during the heat of
summers.
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38. An igloo
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39. • 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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40. 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
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stationary at a fixed point.

41. A boathouse
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42. A chalet
a house with a steep sloping roof, common in places
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with high mountains and snow, such as Switzerland

43. Tents
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44. Tree houses
a wooden
structure built
in the
branches of a
tree for
children to
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play in

45. A log cabin
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46. Shanty
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47. Dormitory
especially BrE a large room for several people to sleep in,
for example in a boarding school or hostel
AmE a large building at a college or university where
students live [= HALL OF RESIDENCE BrE] 47

48. Bed-sit
BrE
a rented room used for both living and sleeping in
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49. Condominium
(AmE) one apartment in a building with several apartments,
each of which is owned by the people living 49 it
in

50. Monastery /
Convent
monasteries - a
place where
monks live
convent - a
building or set of
buildings where
nuns live
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51. Cathedral
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52. Barn conversion
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53. Front doors
in Britain
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54. Front doors in Ireland
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56. Windows
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57. French windows
a pair of doors made mostly of glass, usually
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opening onto a garden or balcony

58. Sash windows
a window consisting of two
frames that you open by sliding
one up or down, behind or in
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front of the other

59. Bay window
a window that sticks out
from the wall of a
house, usually with
glass on three sides
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60. Picture window
a large window made of a single piece of glass
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61. Rose window / stained glass
windows
• a circular window in a church, especially
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one with coloured glass in it

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63. Roofs
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64. Thatched roof
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65. Slate roof - kivikatus
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66. Tin roof – plekk-katus
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67. A pitched roof (=sloping roof)
viilkatus
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68. A flat roof
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