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A garage apartment [1] (also called a coach house, garage suite or in Australia, Fonzie flat [2]) is an apartment built within the walls of, or on top of, the garage of a house. The garage may be attached or a separate building from the main house, but will have a separate entrance and may or may not have a communicating door to the main house.
Belton House.Externally the windows of the servant's semi-basement are visible at ground level. Internally they are too close to the ceiling to have a view. In architecture, a semi-basement, lower ground, lower level, etc. is a floor of a building that is half below ground, rather than entirely such as a true basement or cellar.
In most parts of North America, it is legal to set up apartments and bedrooms in daylight basements, whether or not the entire basement is above grade. Daylight basements can be used for several purposes—as a garage, as maintenance rooms, or as living space. The buried portion is often used for storage, laundry room, hot water tanks, and HVAC.
American Craftsman house with detached secondary suite. A secondary suite (also known as a accessory dwelling unit (ADU), in-law apartment, granny flat, granny annex or garden suite [1]) is a self-contained apartment, cottage, or small residential unit that is located on a property that has a separate main, single-family home, duplex, or other residential unit.
A basement apartment is an apartment located below street level, underneath another structure—usually an apartment building, but possibly a house or a business. Cities in North America are beginning to recognize these units as a vital source of housing in urban areas and legally define them as an accessory dwelling unit or "ADU".
The presidential suite has three bedrooms, a gallery entrance with Art Deco-styled murals, a media room, a dining area, and a living room. [150] Another suite, the two-bedroom Royal Suite on the 22nd floor, has 1,800 square feet (170 m 2) and includes a black marble fireplace and 14-foot-high (4.3 m) ceilings. [211]
The Undercroft at Blakeney Guildhall in Norfolk A modern parking undercroft beneath a cinema. An undercroft is traditionally a cellar or storage room, [1] often brick-lined and vaulted, and used for storage in buildings since medieval times.
Two wood-frame annexes abut the western elevation. The southern elevation has a cast-concrete band. [315] Within the building, the northern end of the T-shaped floor plan is a double-height space. Residence A's main entrance leads to a foyer with a concrete floor and a 7-foot-high (2.1 m) ceiling.