two-up-two-down

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.