two-up two-down

George was earning well and we were to move into a little two-up two-down.

Two-up two-down is type of small house with two rooms on the ground floor and two rooms upstairs.

I’m standing in a warm, stylish two-up two-down in one of south Manchester’s grittier suburbs.

Once a Victorian two-up two-down, the former fisherman's house has been extended backwards and enhanced upwards to accommodate two bathrooms, a pretty galley kitchen and a twin-bed attic conversion.

He hadn't picked Emily up since their wedding day when just to pander to the family's conventional sense of humour he had carried her over the threshold of their two-up two-down.

Some schools will even pay you a visit at home to check there are no family photos taken on expensive holidays, while Google Maps is handy for verifying whether a declared two-up two-down is really a mansion with a swimming pool.

We lived in a two-up two-down on an estate here in Greenwich, she was studying for a degree at Goldsmiths.

But mum had bettered herself (we now lived in a semi, no longer a two-up two-down.