ranchhouse

Single-story farmstead

A ranchhouse is a single-story residential home with a long, low profile, typically featuring an open floor plan and an attached garage.

The style emerged in mid-twentieth-century American suburbs, emphasizing horizontal lines and indoor-outdoor flow.

They bought a ranchhouse with a big backyard.

Also spelled ranch house.

architecture

bungalow

One-story house with porch

sprawling · open-plan · carport · patio · breezeway · eaves · gable · stucco · siding · split-level

western

cowboy

Mounted cattle herder

  • cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
  • corralFenced livestock enclosure
  • prairieOpen grassy flatland

frontier · hacienda · adobe · vaquero · stockmen · roundup · branding · saddlery · bunkhouse · chuckwagon

homestead

acreage

Amount of land owned

barnyard · outbuildings · windmill · wellhouse · fencing · cultivated · orchard · heritage · ancestral · land-grant

layout

spacious

Having ample room

ground-floor · mudroom · den · sunroom · walkout

Opposites
architectural height/verticality

ranchhousesplit-level

House with offset floors

townhouse · brownstone · Victorian · colonial · row house

architectural style/era

ranchhouseVictorian

Of a prim era

Queen Anne · Gothic Revival · Tudor · colonial · Georgian

housing density/type

ranchhousehigh-rise apartment

Home in tall building

apartment · high-rise · condominium · tenement · apartment building

Family

house, household, housing, rancher, ranching, ranch, ranches, ranched, ranchers

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G