English: types of houses

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• Block of Flats A suite of rooms forming one residence, typically in a building containing a number of these.
• Bungalow A low house, with a broad front porch, having either no upper floor or upper rooms set in the roof
• Cabin A small shelter or house, made of wood and situated in a wild or remote area.
• Camper van a self-propelled vehicle that provides both transport and sleeping accommodation.
• Castle A large building, typically of the medieval period, fortified against attack with thick walls, battlements, towers, and in many cases a moat.
• Chalet A wooden house or cottage with overhanging eaves, typically found in the Swiss Alps.
• Condo a type of living space similar to an apartment but independently sellable and therefore regarded as real estate.
• Container house made from the steel shipping containers that you see carrying goods everywhere on trains, trucks, and ships.
• Courtyard house often a large house where the main part of the building is disposed around a central courtyard.
• Detached house A house that is not joined to any other house.
• Dormitory a building primarily providing sleeping quarters for large numbers of people such as boarding school, high school, college or university students.
• Farmhouse a building that serves as the primary residence in a rural or agricultural setting.
• Hut a small house with only one or two rooms, especially one which is made of wood, mud, grass, or stones.
• Igloo a type of shelter built of snow
• Lighthouse a tower, designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses
• Manor a country house, the principal house of a landed estate.
• Mansion a large dwelling house, usually more modern than a manor
• Mobile home/ trailer home a prefabricated structure, on a permanently attached chassis. Used as permanent homes, or for holiday or temporary accommodation
• Semi-detached house a single family dwelling house built as one of a pair that share one common wall.
• Skyscraper a continuously habitable high-rise building that has over 40 floors and is taller than approximately 150 m.
• tent A portable shelter made of cloth, supported by one or more poles and stretched tight by cords or loops attached to pegs driven into the ground.
• Terraced house A house built as part of a continuous row in a uniform style; a row house.
• Tower a tall structure, taller than it is wide
• Tree house a platform or building constructed around, next to or among the trunk or branches of one or more mature trees while above ground level.
• Villa A large and luxurious country house in its own grounds.

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