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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