One ground is commonly taken as 2400 square feet and approximately one half ground is used as a small and standard lot to construct a small individual house in small towns in India. In olden times houses used to adjoin and have common walls.
A typical plot size is commonly accepted as 2400 square feet, with about half of it allocated for constructing a compact individual dwelling in rural areas of India. Historically, homes were often joined together and shared a common boundary.