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Brown brick bungalow with roof windows in Reedsburg, Wisconsin, U.S. A bungalow is a small house or cottage that is single-storey, [1] sometimes with a smaller upper storey set in the roof and windows that come out from the roof, [2] and may be surrounded by wide verandas. [1] [3]
A gablefront house or gablefront cottage has a gable roof that faces its street or avenue, as in the novel The House of Seven Gables. A-frame: so-called because the steep roofline, reaching to or near the ground, makes the gable ends resemble a capital letter A. Chalet: a gablefront house built into a mountainside with a wide sloping roof
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California bungalow is an alternative name for the American Craftsman style of residential architecture, when it was applied to small-to-medium-sized homes rather than the large "ultimate bungalow" houses of designers like Greene and Greene.
Bungalow court, a style of multi-family housing developed in Pasadena, California, in the 1910s; Bungalow Heaven, Pasadena, California, a neighbourhood; The Bungalow on the Beach, a 17th-century house built by the Governor of Danish India, now a hotel, in Tharangambadi, Tamil Nadu, India. The Bungalow Mystery (1930), a novel in the Nancy Drew ...
The bungalow's architect and contractor were also noted to be of importance as a representation of Bullard and Dickson's works. [4] The Hubbard Bungalow was officially added to the NRHP list on August 24, 2005, becoming the eighth such listing in Centralia. [25] [7] The home had previously been added to the Washington State Heritage Register in ...
A cottage, during England's feudal period, was the holding by a cottager (known as a cotter or bordar) of a small house with enough garden to feed a family and in return for the cottage, the cottager had to provide some form of service to the manorial lord. [1] However, in time cottage just became the general term for a small house.
Burkill Hall in Singapore Botanic Gardens, the oldest surviving 19th century Anglo-Malay Plantation building, forerunner to the black and white bungalow. In Malaysia and Singapore, bungalows such as these were built from the 19th century until World War II for the wealthy expatriate families, the leading commercial firm as well as the Public Works Department and the British Armed Forces. [2]