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townhouse
A townhouse, or town house as used in North America, Asia, Australia, South Africa and parts of Europe, is a type of terraced housing. A modern town house is often one with a small footprint on multiple floors. The term originally referred in British usage to the city residence of a member of the nobility, as opposed to their country seat.
==Background==
Historically, a town house was the city residence of a noble or wealthy family, who would own one or more country houses in which they lived for much of the year. From the 18th century, landowners and their servants would move to a townhouse during the social season (when major balls took place).〔For a description of an 18th-century town house in England, for example, see Olsen, Kirsten. (''Daily Life in 18th-Century England'' ). Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999, pp. 84–85.
*Also see Stewart, Rachel. ''The Town House in Georgian London''. Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2009.〕
In the United Kingdom most townhouses were terraced. Only a small minority of them, generally the largest, were detached, but even aristocrats whose country houses had grounds of hundreds or thousands of acres often lived in terraced houses in town. For example the Duke of Norfolk owned Arundel Castle in the country, while his London house, Norfolk House, was a terraced house in St James's Square over 100 feet (30 meters) wide.
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