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Typical Bi-Level...Entrance is between Finished Basement and Main Level (Kitchen Living Room), five steps go up five go down........ however there are dormers and a third level. With a 24x14 bedroom. So calling it a BI-level would be wrong?...Right?
I would call a property with two levels with one of the levels being basement area and having a entrance halfway between the two levels with a landing and stairs to each level a "split-foyer." I understand that terminology may be different in your area.
What you describe sounds more like a Cape COD with a split-foyer entry. Is the floorplan original or did someone raise the roof and add a third level? Maybe call it a contemporary Cape COD?
If there only two levels, that's what I call a split-foyer. If there are more than two levels, I would call it a split-level.
A builder in a previous area of mine built a split-level based on a basic three-level design which was expandable to a five or six-level design by adding a sub-basements under the living room level, a level below finished areas behind the basement level garage and a level above the living room/kitchen/dining room level.