Sentence examples for rear house from inspiring English sources

Now downriver comes the Tor Belgia, out of London, with a six-deck rear house, followed by the Arco Humber, spewing bilge, a floating cadaver of ulcerated rust.

DIGS Perhaps only in Brooklyn — Williamsburg, to be precise — could Mr. Lorimer find a dwelling as strange as the crooked "rear house" he rents with his sister.

Since the family lived in a rear house, in a back-to-back Victorian terrace, Aisha could easily venture out into the yard without being seen from the street.

He put classical details on the one-story wall, and painted the rear house a light color, off-white and gray, with dark shutters and a Regency-style hood over the doorway.

Mr. Pettengill moved out after only a few years, and the rear house was taken by Cass Canfield, president of Harper & Row, who worked with authors like Henry Steele Commager, E. B. White and James Thurber.

These days, the existence of such a rentable rear house can increase the purchase price of a front property in the Village by $750,000 to $1.25 million, according to Debra Kameros, a real estate agent who specializes in the West Village.

As rental spaces, rear houses can sometimes be relative bargains.

So few rear houses exist in Queens, for example, because the borough was largely built later, Mr. Seyfried said.

Inside, however, the main structure has been divided into six apartments, and the former copper works at the rear houses 10.

A new wing to the rear, housing 189 bedrooms, is clad in a modern version of Scott's red-brick gothic by restoration specialists Richard Griffiths Architects.

But in the earliest urban areas of Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island, and even in Village-like Brooklyn Heights, original rear houses are very rare.