I researched "recurring nightmare" and didn't find it either, nowhere, so don't feel bad :-)

That sounds like a scary, frustrating dream SeptMorn. When I dream of houses it's more like treasure hunts and there's something to "find"/understand in the house. My dreary landscape houses were backdrops (I'd look out their screened window) and the single bedroom I was in, my focus was narrowed to just that room and those things, didn't get to wander around.

The depression dream though was like something constantly telling me I was depressed, not quite like an alcoholic trying to tell the authorities he's not; that has ways of testing whereas feeling states don't. I remember when I was in 7th grade science and we were talking about power of suggestion and a kid was late coming into class and the teacher said to the rest of us, "watch this" and then when the kid came in, accepted him okay but expressed concern he looked like he didn't feel very well? Kept asking the kid if he was all right :-) and, sure enough, the kid ended up being excused to go to the school nurse. It was kind of that "unconscious" struggle with something "telling" me I was depressed and trying to fight that.