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  2. Terraced house - Wikipedia

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    A terrace, terraced house , or townhouse ... Detached housing became the popular style of housing in Australia following Federation in 1901.

  3. List of house types - Wikipedia

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    A wooden house in Tartu, Estonia. This is a list of house types.Houses can be built in a large variety of configurations. A basic division is between free-standing or single-family detached homes and various types of attached or multi-family residential dwellings.

  4. Townhouse - Wikipedia

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    Only a small minority of them, generally the largest, were detached, but even aristocrats whose country houses had grounds of hundreds or thousands of acres often lived in terraced houses in town. For example, the Duke of Norfolk owned Arundel Castle in the country, while his London house, Norfolk House , was a terraced house in St James's ...

  5. Terrace houses in Australia - Wikipedia

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    At the beginning of the twentieth-century, with the growth of suburban areas of detached houses, terrace houses in Australia fell into disfavour, along with the inner city areas, and many became considered slums. In the 1950s, urban renewal programs were often aimed at eradicating them entirely, not infrequently in favour of high-rise development.

  6. Victorian house - Wikipedia

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    Victorian houses were generally built in terraces or as detached houses. Building materials were brick or local stone. Bricks were made in factories some distance away, to standard sizes, rather than the earlier practice of digging clay locally and making bricks on site. [1]

  7. Semi-detached - Wikipedia

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    A semi-detached house (often abbreviated to semi) is a single-family duplex dwelling that shares one common wall with its neighbour. The name distinguishes this style of construction from detached houses, with no shared walls, and terraced houses, with a shared wall on both sides.

  8. Terrace (building) - Wikipedia

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    The roof terrace of the Casa Grande hotel in Santiago de Cuba. Terraces need not always protrude from a building; a flat roof area (which may or may not be surrounded by a balustrade) used for social activity is also known as a terrace. [2] In Venice, Italy, for example, the rooftop terrace (or altana) is the most common form of terrace found ...

  9. List of heritage sites in Gqeberha - Wikipedia

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    These nine houses form part of a unique terrace consisting of a row of identical late-Victorian double-stoleyed semi-detached houses which were erected at the turn of the twentieth century and have since remained unaltered. Port Elizabeth: Port Elizabeth Provincial Heritage Site