What are these types of houses called

onwards&upwards

MovingForwards wrote: »

A maisonette is a flat that has two liveable floors like a house.

Isn’t that a duplex?

googler

scottishblondie wrote: »

To me a main door flat is the ground floor of a tenement.

(... with its door opening onto the street, as opposed to within the communal stair. If it opens onto the communal stair, it's just a Ground-floor Flat.)

MovingForwards

Can't multiquote on my phone!

Lower / upper villa should read as being Scotland.

No, a maisonette would be like having two, or more, houses on top of each other. So four, eight etc stories high with each maisonette having two floor (living area downstairs and bedroom area upstairs). I have seen they are classed as duplexes in England.

A tenement is four - six floors of an old purpose built flat. Or that's how I view them. Took me a while to understand these were not originally one house converted into flats when I first moved up here. Same as the one up one down, I thought they were converted houses like in England but we're actually purpose built up here.

PasturesNew

If everybody has their own front door, they're all maisonettes. Your sketch shows maisonettes as there are four dwellings and four doors. Maisonettes always have their own front door and not a communal entrance.

If one block of flats has a combination of communal entrances and private entrances then it'd be "Flat with own private entrance".

There's no official "right and wrong", it's often just the way somebody uses to describe what they mean, based on their own ideas/opinions. So it can be a bit fluid when left to estate agents to do a write up.

Waterlily24

Definition in my dictionary 'A part of a house , block of flats, etc. forming separate living accommodation, usually on two floors having a separate entrance .'

dotchas

In Scotland either four in a block or upper and lower villas.
A maisonette would be a flat with 2 floors.

zagubov

Down here in South London, a maisonette could be a flat with stairs going down to a main door.

There are only a few cottage flats of the type common in Scotland where there are outside stairs at each end leading up to the upper flats, so inside the floorspace is all living area and no internal stairwells.

I've always thought duplexes were another name for split-level houses. Google for houses in the Seafar area of Cumbernauld and there will be lots built on the steeply sloping ground.

Owain_Moneysaver

jimbog wrote: »

I would definitely get a survey done. Some of those walls have structurally issues

The architect's been on the Lanliq

zagubov

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

The architect's been on the Lanliq

I seem to remember that was a proper commotion lotion, a wreck-the-hoose juice, if you will.