What is English Cottage Design About ?
On the exterior of an English Cottage style home the roof is usually steep pitched. Roofs may have cross-gables and may even have clipped gables. The roofs over entries are usually front-facing gables where one side is steep and straight and the other side is curved like a slide. The homes that this style mimics were built mainly in between 1920 and 1940 in England. The roof then would be thatch covered or made to look like thatch by soft rounding shingles over hip and ridge lines.
Exterior wood doors are typically arch or round top in shape. The hardware is decorative to ornate. Windows are usually casement tall and narrow units segregated into small panes, sometimes turned into diamond pattern. Decorative timbers may accent the building lines.
The home overall on the exterior is small, asymmetric and one to two stories in height. Chimneys are usually over sized and use stone, decorative stone, clinker brick and are topped with chimney pots. Exterior wall surfaces can be made of stucco, shingles or lap siding.
