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Middle-class house in Salisbury cathedral close, England, with minimal classical detail. Very grand terrace houses at The Circus, Bath (1754), with basement "areas" and a profusion of columns. Function rules at Massachusetts Hall at Harvard University, 1718–20 Classically proportioned 19th century Georgian manor house, Throckley Hall (1820 ...
The raised ranch is a two-story house in which a finished basement serves as an additional floor. It may be built into a slope to utilize the terrain or minimize its profile. For a house to be classified by realtors as a raised ranch, there must be a flight of steps to get to the main living floor – which distinguishes it from a split-level ...
Snout house: a house with the garage door being the closest part of the dwelling to the street. Octagon house: a house of symmetrical octagonal floor plan, popularized briefly during the 19th century by Orson Squire Fowler; Stilt house: is a house built on stilts above a body of water or the ground (usually in swampy areas prone to flooding).
Battening a country house in a dacha co-operative in the environs of Moscow, July 1993 The family of a worker of the Krasny Khimik plant in Leningrad at their dacha house, July 1981. The period after World War II saw moderate growth in dacha development.
A raised bungalow is one in which the basement is partially above ground. The benefit is that more light can enter the basement with above ground windows in the basement. A raised bungalow typically has a foyer at ground level that is halfway between the first floor and the basement. Thus, it further has the advantage of creating a foyer with a ...
Split-Level House. A split-level home (sometimes called a tri-level home) is a style of house in which the floor levels are staggered.There are typically two short sets of stairs, one running upward to a bedroom level, and one going downward toward a basement area.
This list of house styles lists styles of vernacular architecture – i.e., outside any academic tradition – used in the design of houses. African
Basement of Diocletian's Palace Measured drawing showing basement plan and structural foundations of the Amoureaux House in Ste. Geneviève, Missouri Floorplan of Church of Tithes, Kyiv, prior to 1828 rebuild Grocery department in basement of T. Eaton's company, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (1929)