What does MEWS property mean?

m_13

BettiePage wrote: »

Does anyone know what quasi- semi detached or quasi detached means?
I've seen it on a few recently.

Quasi means 'in some sense or degree'.

Quasi-detached originally referred to a property that is attached to another property on one section only:

He began building almost immediately in the section between the north-south arm of Lexham Gardens and Marloes Road and by 1872 had erected nine large houses. Six were built as linked pairs, but the westernmost three had wider frontages of about forty-two feet and were quasi-detached, that is joined at the rear only.

More recently quasi-detached and quasi-semi-detached appears to be a property that used to be detached or semi-detached but now isn't. Like this semi-detached that is now appears as a mid-terrace because they have had an extension over the garage and so are now connected at that point to their neighbour:


It may well be that behind the garage and the above garage extension, the remainder of the property is still semi-detached.

Hectors_House

Cat695 wrote: »

When it says in a house ad that its a mews property?

I've seen houses in Leicester described as being mews where the houses sit facing each other (with a front garden to each), enclosed by a wall with a gateway providing access to a shared pathway running up the middle.

These were Victorian houses in a posh part of town.

The houses are in a block (terrace) with 4 to 5 houses on each side.

Hope this helps.