English basement

Townhouses with English basements

An English basement is an apartment (flat in UK English) on the lowest floor of a building, generally a townhouse or brownstone, which is partially below and partially above ground level and which has its own entrance separate from those of the rest of the building.[1]

  1. ^ Holder, Sarah (2021-09-14). "How the English Basements of Washington, D.C., Came Into Their Own". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2023-02-02.