Cottage Facts for Kids

A cozy cottage in Tokarnia, Poland.

Snow-covered cottages near Curarrehue, Chile.

A cottage is usually a small, cozy house. The word "cottage" first came from England. There, it meant a house with one main floor and smaller bedrooms upstairs, tucked under the roof.

Today, a cottage often means a small, old-fashioned house. In some places, like the United States, people use "cottage" to describe a small home used for holidays or vacations.

Cottages are often found in quiet villages or out in the countryside, away from busy towns. They are usually built using materials found close by. For example, a cottage might be made of stone, brick, or wood. Its roof could be made of tiles, slates, wooden shingles, or even thatch (dried plant material).

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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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