House types

Passive house (Passivhaus in German) is a rigorous, voluntary standard for energy efficiency in a building, reducing its ecological footprint.

A tree house, tree fort or treeshed is a platform or building constructed around, next to or among the trunk or branches of one or more mature trees while above ground level.

A terraced or terrace house (UK) or townhouse (US) is a term in architecture and city planning referring to a style of medium-density housing that originated in Europe in the 16th century, where a row of identical or mirror-image houses share side walls.

A boarding school is a school at which most or all of the students live during the part of the year that they go to lessons.

A dacha (Russian: да́ча; IPA: [ˈdatɕə] ) is a seasonal or year-round second home, often located in the exurbs of Russian and other post-Soviet cities.

A retirement home – sometimes called an old people's home or old age home, although this term can also refer to a nursing home – is a multi-residence housing facility intended for senior citizens.

A villa was originally an ancient Roman upper-class country house.

A cottage is, typically, a small house.

A château (plural châteaux; French pronunciation: ​[ʃɑto] for both the singular and the plural) is a manor house or residence of the lord of the manor or a country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally—and still most frequently—in French-speaking regions.

Mews is a primarily British term formerly describing a row of stables, usually with carriage houses below and living quarters above, built around a paved yard or court, or along a street, behind large city houses, such as those of London, during the 17th and 18th centuries.

An earth lodge is a semi-subterranean building covered partially or completely with earth, best known from the Native American cultures of the Great Plains and Eastern Woodlands.

A low-energy house is any type of house that from design, technologies and building products uses less energy, from any source, than a traditional or average contemporary house.

Hanok is a term to describe Korean traditional houses.

In the United Kingdom and former British colonies, a Victorian house generally means any house built during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901).

A splanch is a type of single-family home that was popular in the New York metropolitan area from the 1950s through the 1970s.

An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside.

North American fraternity and sorority housing refers largely to the houses or housing areas in which fraternity and sorority members live and work together.

A drug house or crack house is a building where drug dealers and drug users buy, sell, produce, and use illegal drugs, including crack cocaine.