(US) A two-storey house in which a finished basement serves as an additional floor, and which has a flight of steps to the main living floor (unlike a split-level house).
(US) A two-storey house in which a finished basement serves as an additional floor, and which has a flight of steps to the main living floor (unlike a split-level house).
“Backwards on its lot means I walk in the front entrance on what should be the second floor of the back of a raised ranch and my walkout basement door should be the main entrance if it was built to speck. my flat "ranch front" is in back.”
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(US, real estate) A ranch-style house.
(North America) An apartment on the lowest floor of a building.
In everyday American speech, a rancher is someone who owns or works a ranch — raising cattle, horses, or other livestock on large stretches of land. In real estate, the term shifted to describe a single-story ranch-style house: long, low, and sprawling, built close to the ground. The house style boomed in postwar suburban America and remains a popular term in property listings today.
(UK) A traditional house with one room upstairs and one room downstairs.
(US) A simple, often damp, basement that has an earth floor.