Semi-detached

A semi-detached house (often abbreviated to semi) is a single-family duplex dwelling that shares one common wall its neighbour. The name distinguishes this style of construction from detached houses, with no shared walls, and terraced houses, with a shared wall on both sides. Often, semi-detached houses are built in pairs in which each house's layout is a mirror image of the other's.

This article is about housing. For other uses, see Semi-detached (disambiguation).

Semi-detached houses are the most common property type in the United Kingdom (UK). They accounted for 32% of UK housing transactions and 32% of the English housing stock in 2008.^[1] Between 1945 and 1964, 41% of all properties built were semis. After 1980, the proportion of semis built fell to 15%.^[2]

The Semi-Detached House (1859) is the first novel by . followed the next year by The Semi-Attached Couple. John Sutherland described the former as "an accomplished study in the social contrasts of aristocratic style, bourgeois respectability and crass vulgarity."^[25]

Emily Eden

"", written and performed by Manfred Mann, is a satirical song about a lost love marrying a boring man from semi-detached suburbia. It was released in 1966 and reached No. 2 in the UK charts.

Semi-Detached, Suburban Mr. James

is a live album by Richard Thompson.

Semi-Detached Mock Tudor

"My Pink Half of The Drainpipe", written and performed by the , satirises neighbourly relations and ownership of property, referring to the practice of each family painting only one half of the drainpipe that runs down the centre of the dividing line between properties.

Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band

“Wisemen” is a song written and performed by British artist James Blunt, and refers to three wise men having a “semi” by the sea.

Single-family detached home

Linked house

by Hon. Emily Eden (1797-1869), published London: R. Bentley, 1859.