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What are these types of houses called
Spir4
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Hi,
See attached picture. I was just wondering what these kind of houses / flats are called.
So to clarify: the left hand door is a direct entrance to the bottom left living unit, the right hand door to the bottom right unit. The middle door has a staircase behind it, and on top of the staircase is the entrance to the top left living unit, and the top right living unit.
Thanks
See attached picture. I was just wondering what these kind of houses / flats are called.
So to clarify: the left hand door is a direct entrance to the bottom left living unit, the right hand door to the bottom right unit. The middle door has a staircase behind it, and on top of the staircase is the entrance to the top left living unit, and the top right living unit.
Thanks
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It might depend in which part of the world it is. In Scotland we would call ground floor flats with their own front door "main door flats", but there isn't a special name for a block which happens to include them.0
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Not sure. But why are you asking?0
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In my part of Scotland, this is referred to as a Quarter Villa.
A Main Door Flat is typically the one or two flats within a tenement block on the ground floor, with their own front door.0 -
Are they purpose-built or conversions of semi-detached houses. Conversions of existing houses are very much a major type of home here in London. Not needed so much in the rest of the UK I think, due to less land pressure.There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0
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That's what I'd call maisonettes.
Flats with their own private front doors.Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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Ditto Doozergirl, maisonettes.0
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A maisonette is an apartment on two floors with its own internal staircase. So I don't think this is a maisonette. It's just a purpose built flat isn't it, with the added bonus of its own entrance.0
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A maisonette is an apartment on two floors with its own internal staircase. So I don't think this is a maisonette. It's just a purpose built flat isn't it, with the added bonus of its own entrance.
I lived in one like the OP drawing as a child and it was called a maisonette. It had its own staircase inside - just the bottom floor was a lot smaller than the top floor!
My aunt lived in one that was fully on two levels but had a communal staircase to get past the downstairs maisonettes, and its own staircase to its own second floor.
Clear as mud
Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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Maisonettes, as they have their own front doors.(AKA HRH_MUngo)
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I'd call 'em flats. No more, no less.0
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