South Africa
In the combined kitchen and living room there is often a fire. Today, many cottages have been prolonged with “outside rooms” (semi-heated exterior rooms with glass walls and a skinny roof) and enormous wooden terraces.
The Bryk Cottage
As a results of the friggebod reform in 1979, many cottage house owners have constructed additional guesthouses on their heaps. What Eastern Canadians discuss with as “cottages” (seasonal-use dwellings), are usually referred to as “cabins” in most of North America. This is most notable within the Midwest and the Western United States, and Western Canada.
However, initially beneath an Elizabethan statute, the cottage had to be constructed with no less than 4 acres (zero.02 km2; zero.01 sq mi) of land. In England from concerning the 18th century onwards, the development of industry led to the development of weavers’ cottages and miners’ cottages.
Most cottages in the Western Cape area of South Africa have thatched roofs and stone or adobe partitions which had been historically whitewashed. A giant variety of the remaining cottages in the country are listed heritage websites. The first identified “cottages” had been inbuilt Russia in the 19th century, when British culture was in style.