What Type Of Home Do You Live In?

Here, town houses are often 2 or 3 bedroomed houses connected in a row 0f 3 or more in a 'terrace'. We also have rather a lot of semi-detached houses like mine, which are just 2 houses together.

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Originally Posted by sArA

Here, town houses are often 2 or 3 bedroomed houses connected in a row 0f 3 or more in a 'terrace'. We also have rather a lot of semi-detached houses like mine, which are just 2 houses together.

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I've always hated the use of semi-detached. It's attached to another home or it isn't. However, typically townhouses are rather tall while semi-detached homes aren't.

We have all types of different attachments. In DC, we call them rowhouses. Same deal though.

Semi-detached

http://www.homesonsale.co.uk/files/36860_4.jpg

Rowhouse (DC)

http://static.flickr.com/54/15174136...74b3ec.jpg?v=0

Townhouse

http://www.progressiveurban.com/stlu...or%20photo.jpg

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Originally Posted by Busyman™

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Originally Posted by sArA

Here, town houses are often 2 or 3 bedroomed houses connected in a row 0f 3 or more in a 'terrace'. We also have rather a lot of semi-detached houses like mine, which are just 2 houses together.

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I've always hated the use of semi-detached. It's attached to another home or it isn't.

We have all types of different attachments. In DC, we call them rowhouses. Same deal though.

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I believe the term is (mis-)used to differentiate between domiciles sharing any common access or space (semi-detached), versus merely sharing a wall (detached).

It would seem a more descriptive nomenclature could be invented.

Rowhouses is a tad prosaic, don't you think.

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Originally Posted by j2k4

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Originally Posted by Busyman™

I've always hated the use of semi-detached. It's attached to another home or it isn't.

We have all types of different attachments. In DC, we call them rowhouses. Same deal though.

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I believe the term is (mis-)used to differentiate between domiciles sharing any common access or space (semi-detached), versus merely sharing a wall (detached).

It would seem a more descriptive nomenclature could be invented.

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True dat. A townhouse can be semi-detached.

A detached house does not share a wall, otherwise it is surely attached and therefore not de-tached.

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Originally Posted by j2k4

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Originally Posted by Busyman™

I've always hated the use of semi-detached. It's attached to another home or it isn't.

We have all types of different attachments. In DC, we call them rowhouses. Same deal though.

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I believe the term is (mis-)used to differentiate between domiciles sharing any common access or space (semi-detached), versus merely sharing a wall (detached).

It would seem a more descriptive nomenclature could be invented.

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Sharing a wall is not detached. A detached house is one which is totally self contained and shares nothing with any other house.

Jinx

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Originally Posted by Mr JP Fugley

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Originally Posted by j2k4

I believe the term is (mis-)used to differentiate between domiciles sharing any common access or space (semi-detached), versus merely sharing a wall (detached).

It would seem a more descriptive nomenclature could be invented.

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Sharing a wall is not detached. A detached house is one which is totally self contained and shares nothing with any other house.

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Yes, quite right; I forgot to re-catagorize and move my defs over one notch.

You understand. :)

I really should not post while juggling. :whistling