Cottage Home Architecture

A Cottage Home Architecture provides all the comfort of a house, but in a smaller structure. It usually hints at vintage or antiquated house.

A cottage home offers full comfort in a smaller structure, often reflecting vintage or antiquated house styles. Today, builders often construct cottage homes in rural areas, offering humble and comfortable accommodation.

The word ‘Cottage’ finds its origin in the English Architecture. In its basic form, it meant a house with a ground-floor living area and bedrooms upstairs. This upper level was well fitted under the projecting eaves. In British English, the modern concept represents a small residence built in traditional English style. It also extends to modern cozy dwellings resembling cottages.

Builders can construct a cottage as a separate unit or add it as a terrace component, depending on occupants. Since historically people used this additional component to house mining workers or peasants, they later called the latter cotters. The cottage exists in many countries and cultures, albeit with different names. In American English, a cottage refers to a ‘holiday home’, or a ‘cabin’, a ‘chalet’ or even a ‘camp’.

Key elements:

A cottage home generally is confined to one or two stories.
The structure is asymmetrical in appearance.
The roof is medium to steep pitched, displaying cross gables or at times, clipped gables.
A thatched-roof appearance is occasionally created using a rolled composition at the edges.
Larger Chimneys, often constructed using clink bricks, feature decorative bricks, stone works and chimney pots.
Band arrangement of tall, narrow windows with occasionally leaded or diamond paned casements, is one defining characteristic of Cottage home.
The patio is generally enclosed within a gabled, cat slide roof.
Doors may display a semi circular edge or arched and provided with decorative hardware.
Stucco, shingle and lapped sidings are quite commonly observed.
Ornamental half-timbering is also associated with cottage construction.
The asymmetrical layout almost always ensures irregularly shaped, yet cosy rooms.