Dead House in dreams
The self. Its rooms are parts of you that you live in or have shut up.
How dead changes the reading
The base reading of House
A house in a dream almost always represents the dreamer. The state of the house is the state of your inner life.
A familiar house in good condition means the foundation is healthy. A house you cannot get out of usually points to a situation — a relationship, a job — you feel responsible for and cannot exit.
Discovering a room you did not know was there is a strong, positive signal: a part of yourself has become available that was not before. Often it is creative, sometimes it is appetite, sometimes it is grief that you can finally enter.
A house being broken into is a boundary being crossed in real life. Watch who comes in and what they take.
Where you often see it. Your own house with extra rooms you did not know about. A house from your childhood. The dream uses the house for the self — its rooms are parts of you that you live in or have shut up.
What it is not. A house dream is not always literal property. The dictionary's standard reading is the house as the dreamer.
Related in the dictionary. Read house with each of its rooms (bedroom, kitchen, attic, basement) and any scene where the structure was the point.