Terrace House 1 (Ephesus)

Terraced Houses 1 is the name used by archaeologists for a complex of private Roman‑period houses in the ancient city of Ephesus in Asia Minor, in present‑day Turkey. Its ruins are part of the archaeological site of Ephesus, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.​​​

Terraced Houses 1 are the more eastern of the two terraced houses excavated in the city. On its western side are the so‑called Terraced Houses 2. The buildings take their current name from the fact that they were built on embankments on the slope. The complex known as Terraced Houses 1 consists of a single block (a Roman insula), which was situated along Curetes Street, opposite the Baths of Varo and the Temple of Hadrian. Its houses date from the late 1st century BC and remained in residential use until the early Byzantine Empire in the 6th century AD. The houses have undergone frequent alterations throughout their history.​​

From the 3rd century AD, the houses show the impoverishment of the city due to earthquakes. In the early Christian period, in the 5th or 6th, a chapel was built in one of the houses.​

The archaeological excavations of Terraced House 1 were carried out between 1960 and 1967.