granny flat

British  

noun

1. Also called: granny annexe.  self-contained accommodation within or built onto a house, suitable for an elderly parent

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Example Sentences

We lived in a neighborhood where the only white people were the family who lived in front of our granny flat.

From Los Angeles Times

That plot of land is within walking distance of the granny flat where I grew up.

From Los Angeles Times

But soon after moving into a granny flat in Van Nuys three years ago, she realized that the fraction in her house number — think: 101 ½ Main St. — was going to be particularly inconvenient in an era of constant deliveries.

From Los Angeles Times

Near the granny flat where I lived before transferring to Patrick Henry were a lumberyard, a Kwikset factory and a trucking depot where my dad would pick up cargo containers.

From Los Angeles Times

I was raised in a run-down granny flat in Anaheim a stone’s throw from a lumberyard, the only place my immigrant parents could afford when they married in 1978.

From Los Angeles Times