To provide a dwelling house which can always satisfy customers visiting a shop and make adjacent people frank to assemble in spite of its atmosphere of an old house.

A courtyard 4 and a building 5 surrounding the courtyard are provided on a corner place in which the two sides of the boundary of a site 3 are delineated, a shop 6 is disposed in a road intersection aide, a dining kitchen 9 is disposed along a road 1 of the side in which the side of the shop runs, and a dwelling part continuing to the dining kitchen 9 from the side of the road 2 on which the front of the shop 6 runs is disposed. A main entrance 14 communicating with the courtyard 4 is disposed between the shop 6 and the dining kitchen 9, doorways 6a, 9a are disposed to allow access by crossing a main passage 15 extending from the main entrance to the courtyard 4 to the shop 6 and the dining kitchen 9, the dwelling part communicates with the passage extending from the main entrance 14 to the courtyard 4, and an inner entrance 27 which allows access through a passage 26 along the courtyard is disposed.