Houses.

HOUSES In Great Britain there are three different types of houses: - a row of three- floor Victorianterraced houses*1,

- semi-detached houses and- detached Houses.

The level of luxury and comfortof the houses depends on theimportance of the person wholived there.

*1 Victorian buildings aretypically made of red brick andoften decorated on the outside. Inside they usually havefurniture made of dark woodand a lot of ornaments and photographs in frames.

semi-detached rowhouse

mansion farmhouse

detached house palace

bungalow cottage

Types of Houses

1. A Detached House

- stands on its own

- has no other houses to join it;

- is surrounded by its own yard;

* A newly-built house in the USA.

2. A Cottage - is a small house, usually in the countryside;

- comes with one or one and a half storey;

- the top floor that fits under the roof upstairs is much smaller than the ground floor;

- is found in villages or in the countryside.

* A cottage in the village in England.

3. A Semi-Detached House

- is a building with two houses side by side, covered over by a single big roof;

- is very common in some cities;

- can be single storey or several-storey high.

* A semi-detached house in England.

4. A Rowhouse - is sometimes called a "terrace house“;

- is part of a row of houses which are joined at the side walls;

- has two rooms downstairs and two rooms upstairs, with a kitchen or wash area out the back

*A brick and tile rowhouse in England.

5. A Bungalow - is built on one level (one storey);

- doesn’t have any stairs;

- often has a hall down the middle of the house to let the breeze blow through;

-are often seen in countries with hot summers, in India, South East Asia, South Africa, parts of the USA, South America, Australia and New Zealand.

*A brick bungalow in Sydney, Australia.

6. A Farmhouse - may look like a cottage, a bungalow or a mansion

- having a place for people to live, it also has a place for animals.

-is long and has two doors, one leading to the rooms, the other opening into a stable for animals.

-can be found in many parts of Europe and Great Britain.*A farmhouse in Belgium.

7. A Mansion- is a very large detached house;

- usually has two floors and sometimes more;

- often has beautiful architecture;

- sometimes does not belong to a private family, but to a town council, big business company, church or college;

- often has unordinary rooms such as a drawing room, a ballroom, a library and a music room (e.g. the White House).*A mansion in the Netherlands.

8. A Block of Flats

- is a large building divided into flats where all the flats share a front door.

*A block of flats in Scotland.

What are houses built from?

mud and clayfired bricks

timber/wood

stone

concrete

1.mud and clay

*A farmhouse in Venezuela made of wooden slats and clay daub.

2. fired bricks

*Brick and tile houses in Beaulieu, England.

3. timber

*"Maplecroft“, a historic timber house in Texas.

4. stone

*A cottage of "dressed" stone in Scotland.

5. concrete

*The “Concrete House”, Southwark, London, 1873

6. modern houses

Modern houses are often made of "pre-fabricated" parts that are partly built in a factory, and are easy to

put together at the site of the building.