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The
fishermen's houses, characteristic of the town of
Hel, are still here to be admired. They are low,
one-floor, non-cellar buildings with the
framework construction (pine-wood and brick)
built upon the rectangle with side proportions of
1:2 or 1:3. Their low attics were not occupied.
The characteristic chimneys that attract
attention are widened at the bottom and are
placed asymmetrically in the gable wall of the
main entrance that was equipped with the
half-wing door and led directly to the singular
in old times street. The houses had typical room
layout. A small room, a hall, to which the main
entrance led and the pantry devoid of windows
were situated along the shorter wall that ran
next to the street. A blind kitchen - smokeroom
was placed behind the small room along the longer
wall of the building. The second line of rooms
consisted of a large room on the left and a
corridor on the right side. A door at the end of
the corridor headed to the yard. The door was a
part of the second longer wall of the building,
as seen from the main entrance. A kitchen range
(fire place) had a location that enabled it to
heat the kitchen, the large room and the hall.
The building had only two windows in the top
walls; at night they were shuttered. One of them
provided light to the small room (in the front of
the house), the other - to the big room (at the
back). On the turn of the 19th century the
buildings still had wooden ornaments on their
tops.
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Plan
of half - timbered
cottages
1 - room,
2 -small room,
3 - corridor
4 - before room,
5 - store,
6 - smoke-kitchen,
P - fire place . |
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