What do you call a house that has a yard outside(an enclosed one with walls, though) and two or three rooms inside, and still it's not all that big and luxurious to call it a mansion?
I've searched for it and it seems that "villa" might be an option, however, it's a UK word and I want a US word. Moreover some image searching shows that villas usually have pools in their yards, while we only have a tiny garden with some young apricot and orange saplings and a single palm tree.
It might be just not as common in the English speaker's culture to live in such houses, nevertheless, I need to describe our house in some ways right away!
I also thought about "A large house" but our house is not really that big too. Any thoughts? Thank you in advance.
Edit:
Here's an image from the yard and the tiny garden:
Best Answer
You are describing a courtyard house.
Wikipedia, though, warns, "Many houses that have courtyards are not courtyard houses of the type covered by this article." If the main rooms are around the courtyard it is a courtyard house, otherwise it is not.