Talk:Cottage

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[edit] Summer House

I was direct here from cottage. I would say these are quite different things - a summer house is usually a small building in the garden of a larger house - The redirect should be removed.AFCR 13:06, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chantilly's Cottage Blu?

I was going to remove the above but I think it refers to a type of china. Is there a suitable Wiki link to point it to? AFCR 09:23, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Summer House

Redirection from Summer House removed and a new page created. Anosmic 21:30, 29 July 2007 (UTC).

This re directs to the Summer Palace at St Petersburg. We need an article on summer houses in general i.e. garden buildings used for sleeping in in summer. AFCR (talk) 09:58, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] What does this mean?

"...where on the second (upstairs floor) one has to walk into the eaves in order to look through the windows." Inside looking out or outside looking in? Is this supposed to mean a dormer window? Ewlyahoocom 03:14, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Inside looking out, and no, it doesn't refer to a dormer. In fact a dormer is designed to relieve the problem described. It is a bad description however, and using setences like "walking into the eaves" gives completely the wrong idea. I don't know if you have ever been inside a cottage, but here in Cornwall we have cottages where as much as 1/3rd of the first floor rooms are in the roof space. This effectively means that in order to walk over to the window, you would have to duck down to avoid hitting your head on the cieling which is lower nearer the wall as a result of the roof pitch. Think of it this way: if you had a dormer window, and you removed it and replaced it with a standard pitched roof, you would have a tiny window down on the floor, and you'd have to duck down to look out of it, or even get anywhere near it. However if you had a dormer you wouldn't have to duck to look out the window. ▫Bad▫harlick♠ 00:15, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 'dry robusting in the cottages'

gets only one Google hit. A popular expression?! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.208.10.36 (talk) 18:43, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bad definition of a UK cottage

"In the UK, the term cottage tends to denote a rurally- (sometimes village-) located one and a half storey property, where on the second (upstairs floor) one has to walk into the eaves in order to look through the windows" Many or most houses that people would call cottages in the UK have two stories, not 1 1/2, and no dormer windows. The essential elements of a cottage in the UK are that 1) it is in the countryside (which includes villages), 2) it is old - at least 100 years old for example, 3) it is not big enough to be a farmhouse or Hall. Here is an example of a typical cottage: http://www.tournorfolk.co.uk/winterton/wintertonproperty.jpg. Many houses that are not cottages have dormer windows.

Some googling for images of "English cottage" suggests that the description given in the article is the American "english cottage" architectural style, which has little or no connection with what English people would call a cottage (although it does resemble Scottish cottages). Surely we should not describe the Disney version of the world as fact. 80.2.193.24 (talk) 23:17, 1 June 2008 (UTC)