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The Charleston Single house reflects the history of Charleston's architecture and culture, and remains popular with many for sale today. The Charleston Single House, unique to Charleston, SC, features a narrow, side-facing layout influenced by Caribbean architecture.
A Charleston single house is a form of house found in Charleston, South Carolina. A single house has its narrow side (often two- or three- bays wide) with a gable end along the street and a longer side (often five-bays) running perpendicular to the street.
The Edwardses’ 1840s home is known as a single house, an indigenous Charleston style built to fit the city’s long, narrow lots, with the gable end facing the street. The 1,925-square-foot main house’s floor plan is typical: one room wide with two rooms on each floor and a central staircase.
The single house is the building form most closely associated with eighteenth-century Charleston architecture. It first appeared in the early eighteenth century and emerged as a favored residential form after the fire of 1740.
Ron Griffin gifted his wife, Claudia, this stately, brick and stucco Charleston single house on Queen Street for her birthday in 2010. Over a decade later, the couple was able to retire to the circa-1797, Federalist-style home, prompting a thoughtful interior redesign—including this elegant drawing room—that marries modern living with ...
If you’re a long-time Charlestonian, chances are you’ve lived in a Charleston single house at some point in your life. Many visitors have come away remembering this iconic Charleston architecture. Charleston singles are, after all, common throughout the peninsula and beyond.
One of the first things visitors to Charleston notice is the number of long and narrow homes that display beautiful covered porches. The Charleston Single House is an icon of Charleston architecture and their construction dates back to near the origins of the City of Charles Town in the 1680s.
The Single House is a vernacular form that’s unique to Charleston, and balancing the needs of a modern family of four while maintaining the house’s architectural integrity was important to the project’s success.
In modern Charleston, one family and multi-family dwellings, and even storefronts, have kept the Charleston Single House style going strong. Its seamless outdoor/indoor living architectural concept has been lauded and used as a design feature all over the world.
A residence custom-designed for the Holy City and tailored over time to suit our climate and society to perfection: of all the things that make this town special, the Charleston single, one of downtown’s most prominent architectural styles, has got to be top-of-the-list.