Talk:Townhouse

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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)

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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)