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    Most British people live in individual houses rather than flats. Houses can be terraced, semi-detached, or detached. Terraced houses are usually the smallest and cheapest. Semi-detached houses often have a garage. Detached houses vary most in size and architecture. The number of bedrooms determines a house's size in Britain. Houses usually have a lounge, dining room, kitchen, and cloakroom on the ground floor, as well as a front garden, back garden, and garage.

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    Most British people live in individual houses rather than flats. Houses can be terraced, semi-detached, or detached. Terraced houses are usually the smallest and cheapest. Semi-detached houses often have a garage. Detached houses vary most in size and architecture. The number of bedrooms determines a house's size in Britain. Houses usually have a lounge, dining room, kitchen, and cloakroom on the ground floor, as well as a front garden, back garden, and garage.

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    Most British people live in individual houses rather than flats. Houses can be terraced, semi-detached, or detached. Terraced houses are usually the smallest and cheapest. Semi-detached houses often have a garage. Detached houses vary most in size and architecture. The number of bedrooms determines a house's size in Britain. Houses usually have a lounge, dining room, kitchen, and cloakroom on the ground floor, as well as a front garden, back garden, and garage.

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    A British House

    Most people in Britain live in individual houses rather than in flats. Such
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    houses are detached, semi-detached or terraced. Usually, terraced houses,
    one of a row of similar prope1ties joined together, are the smallc3t, cheapest
    and have the smallest gardens. Semis are one of two "mirror-image" properties, very
    often with a garage by the side of each house. Detached houses are the most varied:
    by size, by the area of attached land and by their architecture. Often a road may
    contain very many detached houses, all of which look different and are of different
    ages.
    In Britain, the scope and size of a house is measured by the num ber
    of bedrooms it has. So an Englishman may tell you that he lives in a "four-bed
    semi" as "bed" is the usual sho1tening for "bedroom" in this context. The other main
    rooms, such as a lounge, a dining room or a study are often called "reception
    rooms." Often attached to the kitchen is a utility room so that appliar.ces such as
    the washing machine, tumble drier, dishwasher and freezer may be put there rather
    than in .the ki~chen. The bathroom in a British house is usually one room
    with a toilet, bath or shower, sink and sometimes a bidet. No British famity would
    eve!· dream of putting a washing machine in their bathroom and it is even illegal
    to site any high-voltage electrical appliance in a bathroom. Almost all larger houses
    now have a second toilet in a small room called a cloakroom.
    So the average British house may have on the ground floor a lounge, a dining
    room, a kitchen and a cloakroom. Outside there will be a front garden, a back garden
    and a garage. Many families build an extension to add a utility room, to extend
    the kitchen, to make.a conservatory for plants or to add a "family room" or a study.
    Larger houses would have been built with one or more of these alrea-::y. Upstairs,
    on the first floor, there may be three bedrooms and a bathroom. Above them will be
    an attic for ?torage although some families conve1t their attic into an extra room .
    H_aving 3i separnte house and many r?9ms is essential to the British _character -
    r-A..r1 Englishman 's home is his castle" :-- and privacy is very important.. But the dream
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    of many is to 0 • .rn a cottage in the countly with a thatched roof, perhaps built
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    hundreds of years ago, with beautiful flower gardens, far from the noise, dirt and smell
    of big citic:,.. The compromise is very often to have a house in a suburb
    . the c.ou;1try
    o: , ..J'J . . and. then commute to work.
    Since ;SO m2ny people want latid and greenery, most houses have la.vns, patios
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    ar,cl flowe1 g'irdens. ~ardening is, as a result, a _very popular pastim-.. ::-:. Britain.
    ;-\ lrnost al! house~. shape their gardens rather fo r decora~ion .than for . practical
    p·.1.-pos~~ an,~ 1:1 ery few grow vegetables ,in their g~rdens.
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