• 22 pieces
  • Checked October 2026

ASCII House

Tap a house to copy every line of it; the first has a wall you can type your words on.

ASCII House

_ _| |________ / \ /______________\ | YOUR WORDS | | _ _ _ | | |_| | | |_| | |______|_|_____|House with words8 lines, 19 wideReady to copy

22 pieces. Tap one to copy it.

Your own words 1

One line 3

Small, 2 to 4 lines 5

Medium, 5 to 9 lines 12

Large, 10 lines and up 1

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How it works

Text art house drawings in keyboard characters, made for this page: 22 pieces, with houses of one and two floors, a picket fence, three doors, castles with towers and a moat, an apartment block and a city skyline.

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Castle ASCII art

Castles has five: a wall on one line, a small gate, a castle with two towers, a squash-proof one, and Castle with flags, a moat, 10 lines by 23 columns, with pointed roofs and a drawbridge.

ASCII city and buildings

For a text art building, Tall apartment building has five floors of windows. City skyline lines up seven buildings in 6 lines by 23 columns, and City skyline at night adds stars and a crescent.

  • House with words takes 10 characters where it says YOUR WORDS, or 14 if you type over the padding.
  • Squash-proof has six pieces with no run of spaces: three one-liners, a house, a castle and a skyline.
  • The house emoji and its street are on house emoji.

Questions and answers

How do you make an ASCII art house?

Put a slash and a backslash over a wider pair closed with underscores, then a bar each side of a pair of square brackets. Those three lines are Small house, pointed roof. Wide house with a chimney is 9 lines by 19 columns.

Is there an ASCII art door?

Three, under Doors: Front door with a knob, Door standing open and Arched double doors. Each is 7 lines tall and 13 or 15 columns wide, frame included.

Is there castle text art with a moat?

Yes. Castle with flags, a moat ends in a row of tildes with a drawbridge of equals signs under the gate. Castle with two towers is the same idea without water, 7 lines by 23 columns.

What is the biggest piece here?

Castle with flags, a moat, 10 lines by 23 columns. House with chimney smoke and Wide house with a chimney are 9 lines each, and four pieces are 23 columns wide.

All 22 pieces

Your own words 1

  • House with words The words run across the front wall under the eaves, over two windows and a door. Type over YOUR WORDS, 10 characters, or 14 with the padding. 8 lines, 19 wide.

One line 3

  • Castle wall on one line A run of battlements: quote marks for the gaps between the raised blocks. 1 line, 19 wide.
  • City skyline on one line Five rooftops of different kinds standing on one baseline. 1 line, 21 wide.
  • Houses on one line Four pitched roofs joined by underscores. 1 line, 15 wide.

Small, 2 to 4 lines 5

  • Small castle gate Three raised blocks along the top of a wall, and a wide gateway closed by a portcullis of number signs. 4 lines, 11 wide.
  • Small house, pointed roof A triangle of roof over one room with a single window. 3 lines, 5 wide.
  • Squash-proof castle Battlements, a gateway and periods for the stone. 4 lines, 11 wide.
  • Squash-proof city skyline Three joined buildings, the middle one a floor taller. 4 lines, 10 wide.
  • Squash-proof house A pointed roof over two windows and a door, with periods at the corners. 4 lines, 6 wide.
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Medium, 5 to 9 lines 12

  • Arched double doors Two leaves under a round arch, with a knob on each where they meet. 7 lines, 15 wide.
  • Birdhouse on a pole A gabled box with a round entrance hole, standing on a two-row pole. 7 lines, 7 wide.
  • Castle with two towers A tower at each end with a window in it, a wall with battlements between them and an arched gate. 7 lines, 23 wide.
  • City skyline Seven buildings of four different heights, each floor a lit window. 6 lines, 23 wide.
  • City skyline at night The seven buildings under a sky of asterisks and periods, with a crescent at the right. 8 lines, 23 wide.
  • Door standing open The same frame with the door swung inward on its right-hand hinges. 7 lines, 13 wide.
  • Front door with a knob A door in its frame with a round knob on the right-hand side. 7 lines, 13 wide.
  • House with a picket fence The front wall ends in a row of pointed pickets that runs the full width. 7 lines, 17 wide.
  • House with chimney smoke Three puffs rise from the chimney of a low house with two windows. 9 lines, 15 wide.
  • Tall apartment building Five floors of windows, three across, with a double door at street level. 7 lines, 12 wide.
  • Two-story house Three windows upstairs, and two downstairs with a double door between them. 7 lines, 19 wide.
  • Wide house with a chimney A wide roof with a chimney near the left, a window either side and the door in the middle. 9 lines, 19 wide.

Large, 10 lines and up 1

  • Castle with flags, a moat Two towers with pointed roofs and a flag on each, a wall between them, and a drawbridge across a moat of tildes. 10 lines, 23 wide.

How this list was compiled: Own work: every piece was drawn for this page on 2026-10-02, rendered in a monospaced font and looked at; none is copied from an archive or another site, and nothing from a named show, book or game is drawn. Houses here are a roof of slashes over walls of bars, with bracket pairs for windows; a castle adds raised blocks along its walls and an arched gate. No real building, landmark or skyline is copied. Every character is one of the 95 printable ASCII characters, U+0020 to U+007E. Squash-proof means no line starts with a space and no two spaces touch. The comment box badge means at most 8 lines and 30 columns: a rule of thumb of this site, not a promise about any app. Licence: own work

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