Mid-terrace

They pooled the considerable sums and added another huge mortgage, this time based on two substantial incomes, and bought, at the start of the 1980s, the elegant, tall mid-terrace in Canonbury they still owned […]

So they still weren't really speaking when they found themselves at their destination for the evening – a Victorian mid-terrace on three floors almost identical to their own – and suddenly obliged to affect looks of anticipation and pleasure.