two-up-two-down

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English

Noun

two-up-two-down (plural two-up-two-downs)

  1. (UK) A traditional house with two rooms upstairs and two rooms downstairs.
    • 1992, Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The perspective of the world:
      Mansions and workers' two-up-two-downs sprawled all over the town, higgledy-piggledy.
    • 2005, Mark Crinson, Urban memory: history and amnesia in the modern city:
      Houses from Second to Fifth Street were two-up-two-downs and had few amenities, no bathrooms, and were therefore cheap to rent. Some had no hot water.