beside/at/by/near

[englishhobby]

Are the following prepositions interchangeable in the following sentence?
My house is beside/at/by/near/at a small lake.

 

[emsr2d2]

You've given us "at" as an option twice! I find it the least likely of the four though still possible. The others are all perfectly fine.

 

[Rover_KE]

I see a difference with 'near'. This to me means your house could be a short distance from the lake - maybe not even in sight of it.

Note that I have decapitalised your thread title: I didn't want it shouting at me every time I opened the page.

 

[emsr2d2]

Rover is right, of course. I overlooked the fact that you were asking if they were interchangeable and commented on whether they were grammatically correct.