Talk:Townhouse

This article is rather UK-centric, which is ok, but this should either be explicitly indicated in the first line or two. Alternately, it should be expanded to include references to townhouses in other countries.

I agree but the only info I have is about Britain and Ireland. I am hoping others who know about other examples will add them. That is how wiki works. FearÉIREANN 17:53, 6 Oct 2003 (UTC)

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Georgian townhouse

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Hmmm. Seems to deal only with a somewhat archaic usage. Most modern urban development promotes 'townhouses' only loosely related to the original sense (see Chelsea Harbour, for instance) Icundell 21:40, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

And its accuracy is dubious even in those terms. There is an overlap between town house (or a "house in town") and terraced house which is inappropriately denied. I think the blunt statement about World War I is also rather misleading. Oliver Chettle 00:17, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

I've rewritten it to reflect the above three points. Oliver Chettle 00:37, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

I've always thought, as an architectural term in the UK, one of the defining features of a 'townhouse' is that it is a terraced building over three storeys, rather than a regular terraced property which is usually two storeys only. With the increase in land usage density in the UK at the moment, there is a trend for building upwards rather than outwards, and so more newly built three storey terraced houses are being described by the developers as 'townhouses'. DWaterson 19:35, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Agree with the above- I was surprised not to see this meaning mentioned, to me it is the defining feature. It may be an historically idiotic definition but I think where I'm from (Blackburn, Lancashire) it's the normal meaning... 129.234.38.158 (talk) 23:59, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

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Rowhouse redirects here, yet for the US discussion, it mentions nothing about actual rowhouses and instead focuses on more townhouse/sub-urban style of townhomes...skipping over the actual historic rowhouses found in baltimore/philly/dc/boston and even brownstones and stuff from nyc. this stuff needs to be added if rowhouse is to be redirected here... jtowns 09:57, 19 November 2006 (UTC)Brian is wrong.

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Under the Canada and United State section, I came across this sentence: "The distinction between dwellings called just "apartments" or "condos" is that these townhouses usually consist of multiple families, usually multiple floors." I can't really understand what that means. Don't apartments usually have multiple families and multiple floors? Perhaps the distinction is supposed to be that each unit in the townhouse has multiple floors, but I'm not really sure. CopaceticOpus (talk) 13:45, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Merge?

This should definitely be merged with the article terraced house they're practically the same ," said The Person Who Is Strange. ~Yup. It's all true. Click here for more. My page is outdated, but there are a lot of boxes. 04:23, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Dinamik-bot

How do I get the Dinamik-bot to stop adding an interwiki link to no:Bygård? A Bygård is a tenement (or an apartment building, not a townhouse) TorW (talk) 21:21, 5 September 2011 (UTC)