TownHouse definition

kasu_78

Thanks guys. I think I will visit the house before I make any assumption. Even though I hate to do gardening, I would like to have a reasonably big garden for children to play and good sturdy walls with 'enough storage'. Thanks once again for your inputs :j

hazyjo

Just to add... we live in a four storey townhouse. It's 8 years old. The build quality's great, and we don't hear a peep from next door. We're end of terrace (three houses joined, we're on one end). Absolutely love it. Garden's not a postage stamp, but not huge.

Generally, they have a smaller 'footprint' as they're built upwards, not outwards. Modern developers are building quite a few of them as they can cram a few more in, plus they can build and sell as 3-5 beds on what would probably only really be the plot for a two bedroom standard house (ground and first floors).

Jx

Richard_Webster

The point is that none of these terms have any legal status. They are used by estate agents to give a posh description to particular types of house.

Modern three terraces built to 3 storeys often have this name. They tend to be narrow so have narrow back gardens and are not popular with families with young children or older people who do not want to climb two sets of stairs.

London may well be different because if you want to live there you generally have to put up with what you can get, but where I am, for instance, I don't think they hold their value well as compared with more conventional designs.