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terraced house

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noun

  1. US and Canadian names: row house.   town house.  a house that is part of a terrace

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  • terraced housing noun

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Firefighters were called to the fire in a terraced house on Grafton Street at about 11:15 GMT on Friday.

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"We had all these building foundations, a school, domestic houses, terraced houses, even some almshouses and a chapel floor," he says.

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"It was nothing back in the day, just a normal house like a terraced house with a couple of lights up," she said.

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This home, described as a "pavilion-like oasis", was built on a previously derelict plot behind a row of terraced houses in south London for a family with a love of Japanese design.

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There was no nameplate, and the building was one of many anonymous red-brick Victorian terraced houses in Nottingham.

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