Semi-detached houses

Semi-detached housing consists of pairs of houses build side by side as units sharing a party wall and regularly in such a way that each house's layout is a mirror image of its twin. This style of housing, although built throughout the world, is commonly seen as particularly symbolic of the suburbanization of the United Kingdom and Ireland, or post-war homes in middle Canada. This type of housing can be thought of as being a half-way state between terraced or row housing and single-family detached homes. Terraced housing is constituted by continuous row houses with open spaces at the front and back, while semi-detached houses have front, rear and any one side open spaces, and individual detached houses have open spaces on all sides.