'Cottage flats', also known as 'Four-in-a-block flats', are a style of housing

House

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 common in Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

, where there are single floor dwellings at ground level, and similar dwellings on the floor above. All have doors directly to the outside of the building, rather than into a 'close', or common staircase. The majority consist of four dwellings per block (which appear like semi-detached

Semi-detached

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 houses), although such buildings are sometimes in the form of longer terraces. Many were built in the 1920s and 1930s as part of the 'Homes Fit For Heroes' programme but it has proved a popular housing model and examples are still being built today. Cottage flats are the predominant form of housing in many parts of Glasgow

Glasgow

Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...

, including Knightswood

Knightswood

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, Mosspark

Mosspark

Mosspark is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated south of the River Clyde, in the south-west of the city.-History:Mosspark and the lands of East and Mid-Henderston were incorporated into Glasgow in 1909...

 and Carntyne

Carntyne

Carntyne is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated north of the River Clyde, and to the east end of the city...

.

In Edinburgh, colonies

Colony houses

The colony houses of Edinburgh were built between 1850 and 1910 as homes for artisans and skilled working-class families by philanthropic model dwellings companies. The first development was the Pilrig Model Buildings, near Leith Walk. Later developments across the city were built by the Edinburgh...

 are mid-Victorian

Victorian architecture

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 cottage flat-type dwellings in terraced streets which are a similar idea, but of a very distinctly different architecture, being always found in terraces, never as semi-detached type cottages.

Tyneside flats in Newcastle

Newcastle upon Tyne

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 and Sunderland, and Warner houses in Walthamstow

Walthamstow

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, London

London

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 are also similar in form. Some of the model dwellings

Model dwellings company

Model Dwellings Companies were a group of private companies in Victorian Britain that sought to improve the housing conditions of the working classes by building new homes for them, at the same time receiving a competitive rate of return on any investment...

 in Noel Park

Noel Park

Noel Park in London, England, is a late-19th early 20th-century planned community consisting of 2,200 model dwellings, designed by Rowland Plumbe. It was developed in open countryside to the north of London in the valley of the River Moselle, about half-way between the historic villages of Highgate...

, London

London

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are cottage flats, typically in the middle of ordinary terraced housing.