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Cottage

In modern usage, a cottage is usually a modest, often cozy dwelling, typically in aruralor semi-rural

location. However there are cottage-style dwellings in cities, and in places such asCanadathe term

exists with no connotations of size at all (cf.vicarageorhermitage). In theUnited Kingdomthe termcottage also tends to denote rural dwellings of traditional build, although it can also be applied to

dwellings of modern construction which are designed to resemble traditional ones ("mock cottages")

In certain places (e.g.Eastern Canada,ScandinaviaandRussia) the term "cottage" (in Finnish mkki; in

Estonian suvila; in Swedish stuga; in Norwegian hytte[from the German word Htte], in

Russian (dacha)) can refer to a vacation/summer home, often located near a body of water.

However, in the USA generally this is more commonly called a "cabin", "chalet", or even "camp".

In Britain

Duck Island Cottage,St. James's Park, London.

In England the legal definition of a cottage is a small house or habitation without land.[2]

Under

anElizabethanstatute, the cottage had to be built with at least 4 acres (0.02 km2

; 0.01 sq mi) ofland.

[2]Traditionally the owner of the cottage and small holding would be known as acottager. In

theDomesday Bookthey were referred to as Coterelli.[2]

According to the Hammondsin their book The

Village Labourerbefore theEnclosures Actthe cottager was a farm labourer with land and after the

Enclosures Act the cottager was a farm labourer without land.[3]

In Scotland and parts of Northern

England the equivalent to cottager would be thecrofterand the term for the building and it's land would

becroft.[4]

In popular modern culture the term cottageis used in a more general and romantic context and can date

from any era but the term is usually applied to pre-modern dwellings. Older, pre-Victorian cottages tend to

have restricted height, and often have construction timber exposed, sometimes intruding into the living

space. Modern renovations of such dwellings often seek to re-expose timber purlins, rafters, posts etc.which have been covered, in an attempt to establish perceived historical authenticity.

Older cottages are typically modest, often semi-detached or terraced, with only four basic rooms ("two up,

two down"), although subsequent modifications can create more spacious accommodation. A labourer's

or fisherman's one-roomed house, often attached to a larger property, is a particular type of cottage and

is called a penty. The term cottage has also been used for a largish house that is practical rather than

pretentious, seeChawton Cottage.

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