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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. Cottages may be detached houses, or terraced, such as those built to house workers in mining villages. The holiday cottage exists in many cultures under different names. In American English, “cottage” is one term for such holiday homes, although they may also be called a “cabin”, “chalet”, or even “camp”. In Australia, the term “cabin” is common, cottage usually referring to a smaller pre-modern period dwelling.

A typical cottage in Devon, with walls built of cob and a thatched roof. 19th century coal miners’ cottages rebuilt at the Beamish Museum. In England from about the 18th century onwards, the development of industry led to the development of weavers’ cottages and miners’ cottages. Over the years various English Acts of Parliament removed the right of the cottager to hold land. In the law of England and Wales the definition of a cottage is “a small house or habitation without land”. Betws-Y-Coed, a famous example of a tŷ unnos. The Welsh Tŷ unnos or “house in a night”, was built by squatters on a plot of land defined by the throw of an axe from each corner of the property.

In Welsh a cottage is known as bwthyn and its inhabitant preswlydd. In Scotland the equivalent to cottager would be the crofter and the term for the building and its land would be croft. In popular modern culture, the term cottage is 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. 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. This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Americans expect a cottage, particularly a summer cottage, to be a relatively small, possibly unfinished house. In North America, most buildings known as cottages are used for weekend or summer getaways by city dwellers.

Cottage owners often rent their properties to tourists as a source of revenue. Virgin Islands, most cottages are vacation rentals used for weekend or summer getaways. In Michigan, a cottage normally means a summer residence farther north near or on a lake. In the jargon of English-speaking Quebec’s real-estate industry, a cottage is any two-storey house, as opposed to a bungalow.

However, “cottages” in Eastern Canada are generally located next to lakes, rivers, or the ocean in forested areas. This is most notable in the Midwest and the Western United States, and Western Canada. In the 1920s and 30s many gas stations were built in the style of Old World cottages. Comprising about a third of the stations built in the United States in those years, cottage-patterned facilities evoked a picturesque homeyness and were easier to gain approval for than the more stylized or attention-grabbing designs also commonly used at the dawn of the automobile era.