cottage flat

British

noun

any of the flats in a two-storey house that is divided into four flats, two on each floor

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The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said six fire crews were met with a "well developed" blaze in the upper cottage flat on Renfrew Road.

From BBC

The alarm was raised at about 21:00 on Friday after the blaze broke out in the upper cottage flat in Renfrew Road.

From BBC

The tract, though a primary one, forms one of the tamer gneiss districts of Scotland; and I found the nearer hills comparatively low and confluent, and the broad valley in which lay my uncle's cottage, flat, open, and unpromising.

From Project Gutenberg

I need scarcely say now that were you to take away the air from within the roof, theair without would smash both it and the whole cottage flat, as a giant at a fair strikes an egg flat with one blow of his fist.

From Project Gutenberg

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