Cottage
A cottage is a term often used for a small house. This word comes from England where it is used to mean a house that has one main storey, with a second, lower storey of bedrooms which fit under the roof upstairs. In many places the word cottage is used to mean a small old-fashioned house. In the United States the word cottage is often used to mean a small holiday home.
Cottages are usually found in villages or in the countryside, rather than in the town. They are nearly always built from material that can be found nearby. A cottage may be built of stone, of brick or of timber. It may have a roof of tiles, slates, shingles, shakes or thatch.
Cottage Media
A cottage on Inch Island, Ireland
A typical cottage in Devon, with walls built of cob and a thatched roof
19th century coal miners' cottages rebuilt at the Beamish Museum
The Ugly House (Welsh: Tŷ Hyll) near Betws-Y-Coed, a famous example of a tŷ unnos
A common sight in the west of Ireland – a 19th-century stone teachín – in Carrigmanus, County Cork
Cottage built c. 1640, near Swedesboro, New Jersey
Wolters Filling Station in Davenport, Iowa; an example of an English Cottage-style gas station
A contemporary Australian cabin (cottage)
A cottage in Vihti, southern Finland
Swedish cottage in Ljusterö, Stockholm
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