terraced house
noun
British
: a house in a row of houses that shares a wall with the houses next to it
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Eccles lives in a two-bedroom terraced house in Cheshire, a county in northwest England, with her husband.
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
There are a few types of properties that are notoriously hard to acquire: a pastel terraced house in Notting Hill, for instance, or an untouched Manhattan loft.
—Laura May Todd, Architectural Digest, 6 Jan. 2025
He was born in a terraced house in Garston, a district on the eastern shore of the Mersey referred to, Sloane says, as Garston under the Bridge, opposite the docks.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 22 July 2024
Shetty did not grow up in poverty, but his terraced house in suburban London looked nothing like his modernist aerie or this Cape Cod-style mansion.
—Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2023
Ronald Geoffrey Gittins was born in 1939, the middle child between two sisters, and grew up in a small terraced house that was later destroyed as part of Liverpool’s slum clearances.
—Max Olesker, Longreads, 13 July 2023
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
There are a few types of properties that are notoriously hard to acquire: a pastel terraced house in Notting Hill, for instance, or an untouched Manhattan loft.
—Laura May Todd, Architectural Digest, 6 Jan. 2025
He was born in a terraced house in Garston, a district on the eastern shore of the Mersey referred to, Sloane says, as Garston under the Bridge, opposite the docks.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 22 July 2024
Shetty did not grow up in poverty, but his terraced house in suburban London looked nothing like his modernist aerie or this Cape Cod-style mansion.
—Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2023
Ronald Geoffrey Gittins was born in 1939, the middle child between two sisters, and grew up in a small terraced house that was later destroyed as part of Liverpool’s slum clearances.
—Max Olesker, Longreads, 13 July 2023
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