A study of natural radionuclides of different types of houses was conducted at 222 houses in the Thoubal district of Manipur, India. The average annual effective doses of radiation (gamma) in indoor and outdoor were obtained from the measurements using Micro R-survey meter as 1.23 ± 0.10 (range: 1.02 – 1.35) mSvy-1 and 0.76 ± 0.08 (range: 0.60 – 0.89) mSvy-1 for reinforced cement concrete (RCC) houses, followed by 1.09 ± 0.10 (range: 0.95 – 1.19)mSvy-1 and 0.75 ± 0.08 (range: 0.67 – 0.95) mSvy-1 for Adobe laid (AL) earthen houses, 1.03 ± 0.09 (range: 0.78 – 1.24) mSvy-1 and 0.74 ± 0.08 (range: 0.65 – 0.91) mSvy-1 for Assam-type (AT) brick houses, 0.82 ± 0.09 (range: 0.64 – 0.99) mSvy-1 and 0.72 ± 0.08 (range: 0.59 – 0.94) mSvy-1 for AT mud houses and 0.70 ± 0.08 (range: 0.66 – 0.79) mSvy-1 and 0.70 ± 0.07 (range: 0.65 – 0.82) mSvy-1 for AT katcha houses. The activity concentration (226Ra, 232Th and 40K) of building materials available in this district were evaluated using gamma ray spectrometry and found average value as 43.0 (range: 24.1 – 70.2) Bqkg-1, 108.6 (range: 21.3 – 211.8) Bqkg-1 and 1487.2(range: 998.7 – 2298.6) Bqkg-1. Moreover, the annual effective dose conceived from building material was found as 0.7 mSvy-1 from Portland cement, 1.0 mSvy-1 each both for sand and brick.