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
Seen in the wild
Single family · Living small
Broader
None
Narrower
Cottage · Farmhouse · Villa · Manor · Chateau · Terraced House · Cabin
Usage
Not measured
Provenance
evidencedarchitizer SUBTYPE_RULES, read 21 Aug 2026
Status
active
Material Semantics id
typology.house

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