semi-detached house
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A semi-detached house (often abbreviated to semi) is a single-family duplex dwelling that shares one common wall with its neighbour. The name distinguishes this style of construction from detached houses, with no shared walls, and terraced houses, with a shared wall on both sides. Often, semi-detached houses are built in pairs in which each house's layout is a mirror image of the other's. thumb|right|300px| 1950s council house|council built semi-detached PRC houses in [[Seacroft, Leeds, West Yorkshire ]]
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It is catalogued under the topic House types.
Its subject is documented across 15 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Instance of
- statistical unit
- Subclass of
- house
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- Edwardian Semi Detached Homes.jpg
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- OpenStreetMap tag
- building=semidetached_house
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- Twin houses
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- History of the semi-detached house in the United Kingdom
- Housing the rural working classes
- Housing the urban working classes
- Model villages
- Housing the middle classes
- Late 19th century and 20th century
- Outside the United Kingdom and Ireland
- Australia
- Canada
- Cultural references
- See also
- Notes
- References
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A semi-detached house (often abbreviated to semi) is a single-family duplex dwelling that shares one common wall with its neighbour. The name distinguishes this style of construction from detached houses, with no shared walls, and terraced houses, with a shared wall on both sides. Often, semi-detached houses are built in pairs in which each house's layout is a mirror image of the other's. thumb|right|300px| 1950s council house|council built semi-detached PRC houses in [[Seacroft, Leeds, West Yorkshire ]]
Semi-detached houses are the most common property type in the United Kingdom (UK). They accounted for 32% of UK housing transactions and 32% of the English housing stock in 2008. Between 1945 and 1964, 41% of all properties built were semis. After 1980, the proportion of semis built fell to 15%.
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