This document summarizes different types of houses found in Belarus. It describes apartments or flats located in apartment buildings or blocks of flats. It also describes cottages as modest dwellings typically in rural areas. Detached houses are defined as free-standing single-family homes. Semi-detached houses consist of pairs of houses built side by side sharing a party wall. Terraced houses, also known as row houses, are a style of medium-density housing where identical houses share side walls in a row.

1. Houses of Belarus

2. Block of flats
• An apartment or flat is a self-contained housing unit that occupies only part
of a building. Such a building may be called an apartment building,
apartment house , block of flats or, occasionally mansion block, especially if
it consists of many apartments for rent. Apartments may be owned by an
owner/occupier or rented by tenants.

3. Cottage
• In modern usage, a cottage is usually a modest, often
cozy dwelling, typically in a rural or semi-rural location.
However there are cottage-style dwellings in cities.

4. Detached house
• A single-family detached home, also called a singledetached dwelling or separate house is a free-standing
residential building. It is defined in opposition to a
multi-family dwelling.

5. Maisonette
• The Maisonette, now defunct, was North America’s most
highly rated restaurant before it closed its doors on July
25, 2005

6. Mansion
• A mansion, manson or manor is a very large
dwelling house.

7. Semi detached house
• Semi-detached housing consists of pairs of houses built side by side
as units sharing a party wall and usually in such a way that each
house's layout is a mirror image of its twin.

8. Terraced house
• In architecture and city planning, a terrace(d) house, terrace, row house, linked
house or townhouse is a style of medium-density housing that originated in Great
Britain 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.

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