Terrace Houses

In architecture and city planning, a terrace(d) or row house or townhouse (though the latter term can also refer to patio houses) is a style of medium-density housing that originated in Europe in the late 17th century, where a row of identical or mirror-image houses share side walls. The first and last of these houses is called an end terrace, and is often larger than those houses in the middle.

The terrace house has housed different parts of the social spectrum in western society. Originally associated with the working class, in modern times, historical and reproduction terraces have been widely associated with the process of gentrification.


Terraced houses in Fortuneswell, Isle of Portland, Dorset, UK







A street of British Victorian/Edwardian terraced homes.







Grosvenor Square, one of the earliest terraces in England







East side of the Place des Vosges, Paris. One of the earliest examples of terraced housing






Carlton House Terrace, London






Royal Crescent, Bath (1767-1777)






Park Crescent, Regent's Park, London






Dormer top terraces






BedZED zero energy terraced houses in Beddington, London






Gambier Terrace in Liverpool