Cottage Facts for Kids

Snow covered cottages near Curarrehue, Chile

A small house is often called a cottage. 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.

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South Savonia is one of the largest summer cottage regions in Finland, with more than 50,000 holiday homes. The picture was taken in Mäntyharju.
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 southern Finland
Swedish cottage in Ljusterö, Stockholm.
A typical Soviet dacha (summer house) in Resheti.
Example of what now is called "a cottage" in Russia (Mikhaylovka, Volgograd Oblast).
A traditional 'langhuis' (long cottage) cottage in Verloren Vlei Heritage Village in the Western Cape region of South Africa
Church Cottage, Stretton Grandison, Herefordshire
Cottage with thatched roof, Simpson, Milton Keynes
Ashton under Hill, Worcestershire
Cottage designed by John Nash at Blaise Hamlet, Bristol
Anne Hathaway's Cottage, Shottery, Warwickshire
Thatched cottage, Brigsley, Lincolnshire
Cottage, Selworthy, Somerset
Pump Cottage, Harpford, Devon
Circular cottage in Veryan, Cornwall
Cottage amongst sand dunes in Denmark
The Hansel and Gretel cottage at the Efteling theme park, the Netherlands
A cotter house (Kotten or Katen) near Solingen, Germany – used as a vacation cottage today
A wooden cottage in Međimurje County, Croatia

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