Byre-dwelling: farmhouse with people and livestock under one roof.Barndominium: a type of house that includes living space attached to either a workshop or a barn, typically for horses, or a large vehicle such as a recreational vehicle or a large recreational boat.Large garage on the front side and living space on the back end.Ī housebarn is a combined house and barn.

Housebarn Post frame Barndominium with standing seam metal roof. Longère: a long and narrow house in rural Normandy and Brittany.Uthland-Frisian house: a sub type of Geestharden house of northwest Germany and Denmark.Geestharden house: one of the three basic house types in Schleswig-Holstein region of Germany.Longhouse reconstructed Viking longhouseĪ longhouse is historical house type typically for family groups. Welsh tower houses: built mostly in the 14th and 15th centuries.Vainakh tower: a tower house found in Chechenya and Ingushetia that reached up to four stories tall and were used for residential or military purposes, or both.Peel tower or Pele tower: fortified tower houses in England and Scotland used as keeps or houses.Irish tower houses were often surrounded by defensive walls called bawns.Tower Vao tower house in Estonia, built in 15th centuryĪ tower house is a compact two or more story house, often fortified. Tri-level, quad-level, quintlevel etc.Bi-level, split-entry, or raised ranch.It has two nearly equal sections that are located on two different levels, with a short stairway in the corridor connecting them. Split-level house is a design of house that was commonly built during the 1950s and 1960s. Charleston single house: originating in Charleston, South Carolina, a narrow house with its shoulder to the street and front door on the side.Chalet: a gablefront house built into a mountainside with a wide sloping roof.A-frame: so-called because the steep roofline, reaching to or near the ground, makes the gable ends resemble a capital letter A.Gablefront A-frame gable-style house, PortugalĪ gablefront house or gablefront cottage has a gable roof that faces its street or avenue, as in the novel The House of Seven Gables.

Southern I-house: characterized by external gable-end chimneys on the exterior of either side of the house.

Pennsylvania I-house: characterized by internal gable-end chimneys at the interior of either side of the house.

New England I-house: characterized by a central chimney.

I-house Southern I-House style homeĪn I-house is a two or three-story house that is one room deep with a double-pen, hall-parlor, central-hall or saddlebag layout.

Suburban ranch: a modern style of ranch that retains many of the characteristics of the original but is larger, with modern amenities.

Tract ranch: a post-World War II style of ranch that was smaller and less ornate than the original, mass-produced in housing developments, usually without basements.

California ranch: the 'original' ranch style, developed in the United States in the early 20th century, before World War II.

Ontario Cottage: a one- or one-and-a-half-story house with a symmetrical rectangular floor plan and a gable centred over the door, popular in small-town Ontario during the 19th centuryĪ ranch-style house or rambler is one-story, low to the ground, with a low-pitched roof, usually rectangular, L- or U-shaped with deep overhanging eaves.

Family house layout