The phrase "a certain house" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific house without naming it, often to create a sense of mystery or to generalize about a type of house.
Example: "In the story, the protagonist often visited a certain house that held many secrets."
Alternatives: "a particular house" or "one specific house".
A certain house style prevailed, but with inevitable variations according to the individual maker.
He passes a certain house and the woman on the lawn seems familiar.
I learned that such offers often came about because Lazar was having a feud with a certain house or editor.
On a Wednesday at 5 p.m., a certain house in the Shemiran district of northern Tehran bustles with activity.
She recalls living in a certain house in Dublin where she celebrated her fifth birthday and also her seventeenth.
You could keep tabs on people who gather at a certain house of worship or take part in a protest demonstration in a town square.
They see us coming and they say, 'Here we go.' " The focus of the moment is a gang terrorizing a certain housing project.
Some of the teaching staff thought that because a student came from a certain family or housing estate they could only achieve so much, she says.
He's also legless, armless, deaf, disfigured and barely able to talk, which gives a certain grind-house-meets-art-house frisson to the copious sex scenes.
On Nov. 5, 1954, not long after Marilyn Monroe filed for divorce from Joe DiMaggio, DiMaggio was having dinner with Frank Sinatra when he heard, probably from a private investigator, that if he went to a certain apartment house on Waring Avenue in West Hollywood, he'd find her in the arms of another man.
There is one cheekily funny bit involving the use of a very large body as a particular kind of mule and a certain grind house joie de vivre does bubble up in spots.
