A semi-detached house 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, a
1950s council built semi-detached PRC houses in Seacroft, Leeds, West Yorkshire
The Paragon in Blackheath
1890s middle-class semis in Blackheath, London
Semi-detached council house in Seacroft, Leeds, West Yorkshire
A villa is a type of house that was originally an ancient Roman upper class country house that provided an escape from urban life. Since its origins in the Roman villa, the idea and function of a vill
Semi-detached
…systematically in late 18th-century Georgian architecture, as a suburban compromise between the terraced houses close to the city centre, and the detached "villas" further out, where land was cheaper. There are occasional examples of such houses in town centres going back to medieval times. Most early examples…
The Villa Medici in Fiesole with early terraced hillside landscape by Leon Battista Alberti
The Villa Tamminiemi, an Art Nouveau styled villa and house museum in Helsinki, Finland
Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii seen from above
Model of Fishbourne Roman Palace, a governor's villa on the grandest scale