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A terrace, terraced house , or townhouse [a] is a type of medium-density housing which first started in 16th century Europe with a row of joined houses sharing side walls. In the United States and Canada these are sometimes known as row houses or row homes.
A row of typical British terraced houses in Manchester. Terraced houses have been popular in the United Kingdom, particularly England and Wales, since the 17th century. They were originally built as desirable properties, such as the townhouses for the nobility around Regent's Park in central London, and the Georgian architecture that defines the World Heritage Site of Bath.
A pre-regulation terraced house is a type of dwelling constructed before Public Health Act 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 55). It is a type of British terraced house at the opposite end of the social scale from the aristocratic townhouse, built as cheap accommodation for the urban poor of the Industrial Revolution.
The stock of houses expanded from around 1.6 million in 1801 to 7.6 million by 1911 (and, specifically, by nearly 5 million between 1870 and 1914, an average of around 110,000 per year [21]), but there was a disproportionate focus on building houses for the middle and upper classes, hence the frequent poor conditions experience by the lower ...
Row of terraced houses in Middle Park, ... From the 1970s new townhouse type developments, sometimes nostalgically evoking old style terraces in a modern style, ...
From 1861, Liverpool banned the construction of back-to-back houses. [3] The last surviving back-to-back court houses are in Pembroke Place, then known as Watkinson Terrace, with just two surviving houses in a former court of eight, now used as a rear shop extension. [5] Historic maps show how the arrangement used to be, compared to the present ...
The median home age of a house in the Pennsylvanian city is 65 years old, with the median year of houses built in 1957. Almost 80% of the city’s homes were built before 1980, and approximately ...
Two-up two-down terraced housing in Oldham, Greater Manchester. Two-up two-down is a type of small house with two rooms on the ground floor and two bedrooms upstairs. [1] [2] [3] There are many types of terraced houses in the United Kingdom, and these are among the most modest.