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I've lived in a townhouse and there's more to it than just being detached. We had a front yard and a back yard and a side yard.
Every townhouse I've seen were all attached. They were like row houses and the only people who had side yards were at the end. A townhouse is generally two stories, sometimes with a basement or attic and attached. They may call a small non attached home a townhouse but it isn't.
Oops! My bad. So for now it's a zero lot line house and when it's neighbor is built it will be a townhouse.
I would say that the neighbor's house will be to the other side of its lot, with that house's side yard between the two. If they were meant to be townhouses, they would be built with a party wall, not two exterior walls.
The block of houses I share an alley with are built that way - with a yard on on side of the house only. It's funny, those houses are twice as big as my half of my duplex, and half again as expensive, but I think my yard is slightly wider! They squeezed one extra house on the block by having them with a zero lot line on one side but they still got teeny tiny yards. All the houses in the area have side yards only, no backyards.
ive seen it called both zero lot line and detached townhome depending on the context. Detached townhome usually implies the driveways and sidewalks are shared, whereas zero lot line means your neighbors yard abutts the wall of your home, with no shared property.
My hometown is filled with houses like this, and they were built in the late 19th century. We just called them houses.
I just happened to be looking at a friend's home town with tons of homes like this too. They call the style I-homes. I think this might be the same style as the first picture although not sure, not seeing the back of it.
Oops! My bad. So for now it's a zero lot line house and when it's neighbor is built it will be a townhouse.
All the other houses will probably be zero lot lines as well. So everyone has the one side yard. In this case, a small side yard. In some other cases, I've seen zero lot lines with a larger side yard, maybe a little patio to sit out on or a bump out in the house.
I just happened to be looking at a friend's home town with tons of homes like this too. They call the style I-homes. I think this might be the same style as the first picture although not sure, not seeing the back of it.
I believe you're correct that the architectural term for the style is I-house, so named for their prevalence in "I" states like Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa. On narrow city lots, they were turned, so the gable end faced the street, but the basic layout was the same. I do not believe there is a special name reserved for them in real estate listings. They're just houses. A row house is something completely different. Think Baltimore or Philadelphia. In modern building, I think of a townhouse as attached on at least on side. I lived in an end-unit townhouse in the suburbs of Baltimore. We had both a front yard and a backyard, but we shared a wall with our neighbor.
I have clients that just bought this identical house haha! 30x140 lot, 90's built, surrounding homes all similar but nicely treed and well kept. Initially they were dead set against these types of homes and continually asked me to show them less than stellar bungalows with larger frontage. I snuck this home in a search one day and with the interior reno's the owners did, and nice layout, I could tell these nice young buyers were impressed. It took a week or two for them to warm up to the idea but they eventually offered and closed and were very happy! So OP, don't start a pissing contest. It's a house. Period. No shared wall, yard, driveway, etc. Single family dwelling. End of story.
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