Creole Cottage
Plan Details
Specifications
- Floors: 2
- Bedrooms: 3
- Bathrooms: 2
- Foundations: Crawlspace
Construction
- Wall Construction: 2x4
- Exterior Finish: Lap Siding
- Roof Pitch: 13:12
Square Feet
- Main Floor: 975
- Upper Floor: 676
- Total Conditioned: 1651
- Front Porch: 176
Features
- Primary Bedroom: Tub, Walk-in Closet
- Additional: Fireplace, Porch
Dimensions
- Width: 33'-0"
- Depth: 40'-4"
- Height: 28'-0"
- House Levels: Main Floor - 9'-0", Upper Floor - 8'-0"
Description
In many areas of the Lower South, French and Spanish influences blended to form a unique house type-the Creole cottage. Borrowing freely from European styles, early settlers on the Gulf Coast gradually modified the design to adapt to the warm, humid climate. Although born in towns from New Orleans to Mobile, the Creole cottage also appeared in the interior South, where the Greek Revival style influenced it. The symmetry, center-hall plan, and exterior chimney are characteristic of this influence.
Like its predecessors, our Creole Cottage is raised slightly to place the living areas above the damp ground. A steep, gabled roof sheds subtropical rains; the roof's pitch breaks slightly to cover a wide gallery on the front. Six slender columns support the gallery roof and a balustrade. Long, shuttered windows on the lower level combine with round-top windows in the dormers to define the regional look.
See all plans designed by William H. Phillips.