House
A whole dwelling occupying its own building from ground to roof, with its own door to the outside. The door and the verticality are the test: a bungalow is a house, a maisonette over a shop is not.
Also called private house, single-family house.
How it connects
In other taxonomies
- housesGetty AAT, 300005433nearly the same
- HousesUniclass, En_45_10_39the same thing
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
Record
- Also called
- private house · single-family house
- Seen in the wild
- Single family · Living small
- Provenance
- evidencedSUBTYPE_RULES in an architecture-projects platform (src-01), read 21 Aug 2026
For machines
Permanent address
/id/typology/houseKnowledge graph
Stored incoming and outgoing relations from the public V1 graph. Ancestors, descendants, and siblings are labelled as derived views rather than stored facts.
- has-conceptTypologyincoming
- has-conceptTypologyincoming
- typically-inAtticincoming
- typically-inBoot Roomincoming
- typically-inGame Roomincoming
- typically-inNurseryincoming
- broaderCabinincoming
- broaderChateauincoming
- broaderCottageincoming
- broaderFarmhouseincoming
- belongs-to-axisTypologyoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetTypologyoutgoing
- narrowerCabinoutgoing
- narrowerChateauoutgoing
- narrowerCottageoutgoing
- narrowerFarmhouseoutgoing
- narrowerManoroutgoing
- narrowerTerraced Houseoutgoing
- narrowerVillaoutgoing
- typically-containsAtticoutgoing
- typically-containsBoot Roomoutgoing
- typically-containsGame Roomoutgoing
- typically-containsNurseryoutgoing
- broaderManorincoming
- broaderTerraced Houseincoming
- broaderVillaincoming
Derived hierarchy views
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getty AAT | 300005433 | houses | nearly the same |
| Uniclass | En_45_10_39 | Houses | the same thing |