A-frame: so-called because of the appearance of the structure, namely steep roofline.
Addison house: a type of low-cost house with a concrete floor and cavity walls of concrete blocks, built in the UK between 1920 and 1921.
Airey house: a type of low-cost house developed in the UK in the 1940s by Sir Edwin Airey, recognisable by its precast concrete columns and walls of precast ship-lap concrete panels.
Barndominium: a type of house that includes living space attached to a workshop, barn (typically horses) or large vehicles such as an RV.
Bay-and-gable: a type of house typically found in the older areas of Toronto.
Bungalow: a single-story house without a basement.
Cape Cod: popular in the Northeastern United States.
Cape Dutch: popular in the Western Cape, South Africa.
Castle: primarily a defensive structure dating from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century.
Chalet bungalow: popular in England, a combination of a house and a bungalow.
Chattel house: a small wooden house occupied by working-class persons in Barbados.
Colonial house: a traditional style of house in the United States.
Conch House: a traditional style of house in the southern United States.
Cottage: usually a small country dwelling, but weavers' cottages are three-storied townhouses with the top floor reserved for the working quarters.
Craftsman house
Deck House: custom-built post and beam homes using high-quality woods and masonry.
Creole cottage: a type of house native to the Gulf Coast of the United States, roughly corresponding to the location of the former settlements of French Louisiana.
Cracker House: a style of wood-frame home used somewhat widely in the 19th century in Florida.
Detached (free-standing): any house that is completely separated from its neighbours.
Dogtrot: two buildings connected by a breezeway.
Earth sheltered: using earth against building walls for external thermal mass, to reduce heat loss, and to maintain easily a steady indoor air temperature.
Farmhouse: the main residence on a farm.
Faux chateau (1980s - 90s): inflated U.S. suburban house with non-contextual French Provençal references.
Foursquare house
Gablefront house (or Gablefront cottage): a vernacular house type which has a gable roof facing the street.
Gambrel: also known as Dutch Gambrel
Geodesic dome: pioneered by Buckminster Fuller
Hawksley BL8 bungalow: aluminium-clad timber-framed house build in the UK in the 1950s.
I-house: a traditional British folk house, became popular in middle and southern U.S. Colonies.
Igloo: constructed of ice or snow
Indian vernacular
Izba: a traditional Russian wooden house.
Konak: a type of Turkish home in the Ottoman Empire.
Link-detached: adjacent detached properties that do not have a party wall, but are linked by the garage(s) so forming a single frontage.
Linked: rowhouse or semi-detached house that is linked only at the foundation. Above ground, it appears as a detached house. Linking the foundations reduces cost.
Log cabin: a house built of unsquared timbers.
Lustron house: a type of prefab house
Manor house: a country house, which historically formed the administrative centre of a manor, the lowest unit of territorial organization in the feudal system.
Mansion: a very large detached house
McMansion: a formulaic, inflated suburban house with references to historical styles of architecture.
Manufactured home
Mews property: a mews is an urban stable-block that has been converted into residential properties. The houses are converted into ground floor garages with a small flat above which used to house the ostler.
Microhouse: a dwelling that fulfils all the requirements of habitation (shelter, sleep, cooking, heating, toilet) in a highly compact space. Very common in Japan.
Monolithic dome: a structure cast in one piece over a form, usually of concrete
Microapartment: popular in Japan, single room containing kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, and living space in one place (usually on many floors).
Mudhif: a traditional reed house made by the Madan people of Iraq.
Octagon house: a house of symmetrical octagonal floor plan, popularized briefly during the 19th century by Orson Squire Fowler.
Patio home
Pole house: a timber house in which a vertical poles carry the load of the suspended floors and roof, allowing all the walls to be non-loadbearing.
Prefab: a house where the main structure is prefabricated (common after WWII).
Ranch: a single-story house, usually with garage and basement.
Queenslander: a house most commonly built in the tropics of Australia. Raised on stumps to allow airflow underneath and with a wide verandah partially if not fully around the house.
Roundhouse: a type of house with a circular plan, built in Western Europe prior to the Roman occupation.
Saltbox: a style of house popular in colonial New England.
Split-level house: a style popular in the 1950s and 1960s.
Sears house: owner-built "kit" houses sold by Sears, Roebuck and Co. through its catalog division from 1906 to 1940.
Shack: a small, usually rundown, wooden building.
Shotgun house: a popular style of house in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Souterrain: an earth dwelling typically deriving from Neolithic or Bronze Age times.
Stilt houses or Pile dwellings: houses raised on stilts over the surface of the soil or a body of water.
Snout house: a house with the garage door being the closest part of the dwelling to the street.
Splits
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Backsplit: multilevel house that appears as a bungalow from the front elevation.
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Frontsplit: multilevel house that appears as a two-story house in front and a bungalow in the back. It is the opposite of a backsplit and is a rare configuration.
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Sidesplit: multilevel house where the different levels are visible from the front elevation.
Storybook houses: 1920s houses inspired by Hollywood set design.
Tipi
Treehouse: a house built among the branches or around the trunk of one or more mature trees and does not rest on the ground.
Trullo: a traditional Apulian stone dwelling with conic roof.
Tudor: the style of architecture and decorative arts modeled on the original Tudor architecture produced in England between 1485 and 1603.
Underground home: an underground dwelling
Unit: a type of medium-density housing found in Australia and New Zealand.
Unity house: a type of low-cost dwelling built in the UK in the 1940s and 1950s, with walls of stacked concrete panels between concrete pillars. About 19,000 were constructed.
Vernacular house: house constructed in a native manner, close to nature, using the materials locally available.
Villa: originally an upper-class country house, though since its origins in Roman times the idea and function of a villa has evolved considerably.
Wealden hall house a type of vernacular medieval timber-framed yeoman's house traditional in the south east of England.
Wimpey house: a low-cost house built in the UK from the 1940s onwards. The walls are of no-fines concrete. About 300,000 were constructed.
Yaodong: a dugout used as an abode or shelter in north China, especially on the Loess Plateau.
A-frame: so-called because of the appearance of the structure, namely steep roofline.
Addison house: a type of low-cost house with a concrete floor and cavity walls of concrete blocks, built in the UK between 1920 and 1921.
Airey house: a type of low-cost house developed in the UK in the 1940s by Sir Edwin Airey, recognisable by its precast concrete columns and walls of precast ship-lap concrete panels.
Barndominium: a type of house that includes living space attached to a workshop, barn (typically horses) or large vehicles such as an RV.
Bay-and-gable: a type of house typically found in the older areas of Toronto.
Bungalow: a single-story house without a basement.
Cape Cod: popular in the Northeastern United States.
Cape Dutch: popular in the Western Cape, South Africa.
Castle: primarily a defensive structure dating from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century.
Chalet bungalow: popular in England, a combination of a house and a bungalow.
Chattel house: a small wooden house occupied by working-class persons in Barbados.
Colonial house: a traditional style of house in the United States.
Conch House: a traditional style of house in the southern United States.
Cottage: usually a small country dwelling, but weavers' cottages are three-storied townhouses with the top floor reserved for the working quarters.
Craftsman house
Creole cottage: a type of house native to the Gulf Coast of the United States, roughly corresponding to the location of the former settlements of French Louisiana.
Cracker House: a style of wood-frame home used somewhat widely in the 19th century in Florida.
Detached (free-standing): any house that is completely separated from its neighbours.
Dogtrot: two buildings connected by a breezeway.
Earth sheltered: using earth against building walls for external thermal mass, to reduce heat loss, and to maintain easily a steady indoor air temperature.
Farmhouse: the main residence on a farm.
Faux chateau (1980s - 90s): inflated U.S. suburban house with non-contextual French Provençal references.
Foursquare house
Gablefront house (or Gablefront cottage): a vernacular house type which has a gable roof facing the street.
Gambrel: also known as Dutch Gambrel
Geodesic dome: pioneered by Buckminster Fuller
Hawksley BL8 bungalow: aluminium-clad timber-framed house build in the UK in the 1950s.
I-house: a traditional British folk house, became popular in middle and southern U.S. Colonies.
Igloo: constructed of ice or snow
Indian vernacular
Izba: a traditional Russian wooden house.
Konak: a type of Turkish home in the Ottoman Empire.
Link-detached: adjacent detached properties that do not have a party wall, but are linked by the garage(s) so forming a single frontage.
Linked: rowhouse or semi-detached house that is linked only at the foundation. Above ground, it appears as a detached house. Linking the foundations reduces cost.
Log cabin: a house built of unsquared timbers.
Lustron house: a type of prefab house
Manor house: a country house, which historically formed the administrative centre of a manor, the lowest unit of territorial organization in the feudal system.
Mansion: a very large detached house
McMansion: a formulaic, inflated suburban house with references to historical styles of architecture.
Manufactured home
Mews property: a mews is an urban stable-block that has been converted into residential properties. The houses are converted into ground floor garages with a small flat above which used to house the ostler.
Microhouse: a dwelling that fulfils all the requirements of habitation (shelter, sleep, cooking, heating, toilet) in a highly compact space. Very common in Japan.
Monolithic dome: a structure cast in one piece over a form, usually of concrete
Microapartment: popular in Japan, single room containing kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, and living space in one place (usually on many floors).
Mudhif: a traditional reed house made by the Madan people of Iraq.
Octagon house: a house of symmetrical octagonal floor plan, popularized briefly during the 19th century by Orson Squire Fowler.
Patio home
Pole house: a timber house in which a vertical poles carry the load of the suspended floors and roof, allowing all the walls to be non-loadbearing.
Prefab: a house where the main structure is prefabricated (common after WWII).
Ranch: a single-story house, usually with garage and basement.
Queenslander: a house most commonly built in the tropics of Australia. Raised on stumps to allow airflow underneath and with a wide verandah partially if not fully around the house.
Roundhouse: a type of house with a circular plan, built in Western Europe prior to the Roman occupation.
Saltbox: a style of house popular in colonial New England.
Split-level house: a style popular in the 1950s and 1960s.
Sears house: owner-built "kit" houses sold by Sears, Roebuck and Co. through its catalog division from 1906 to 1940.
Shack: a small, usually rundown, wooden building.
Shotgun house: a popular style of house in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Souterrain: an earth dwelling typically deriving from Neolithic or Bronze Age times.
Stilt houses or Pile dwellings: houses raised on stilts over the surface of the soil or a body of water.
Snout house: a house with the garage door being the closest part of the dwelling to the street.
Splits
-
Backsplit: multilevel house that appears as a bungalow from the front elevation.
-
Frontsplit: multilevel house that appears as a two-story house in front and a bungalow in the back. It is the opposite of a backsplit and is a rare configuration.
-
Sidesplit: multilevel house where the different levels are visible from the front elevation.
Storybook houses: 1920s houses inspired by Hollywood set design.
Tipi
Treehouse: a house built among the branches or around the trunk of one or more mature trees and does not rest on the ground.
Trullo: a traditional Apulian stone dwelling with conic roof.
Tudor: the style of architecture and decorative arts modeled on the original Tudor architecture produced in England between 1485 and 1603.
Underground home: an underground dwelling
Unit: a type of medium-density housing found in Australia and New Zealand.
Unity house: a type of low-cost dwelling built in the UK in the 1940s and 1950s, with walls of stacked concrete panels between concrete pillars. About 19,000 were constructed.
Vernacular house: house constructed in a native manner, close to nature, using the materials locally available.
Villa: originally an upper-class country house, though since its origins in Roman times the idea and function of a villa has evolved considerably.
Wealden hall house a type of vernacular medieval timber-framed yeoman's house traditional in the south east of England.
Wimpey house: a low-cost house built in the UK from the 1940s onwards. The walls are of no-fines concrete. About 300,000 were constructed.
Yaodong: a dugout used as an abode or shelter in north China, especially on the Loess Plateau.
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