coal cellar
Underground fuel room
A coal cellar is an underground storage room for coal, typically beneath a house.
Before central heating became standard, homes kept coal supplies in cellars for feeding furnaces and fireplaces.
The term persists in British English for basement storage spaces even when no longer used for coal: The old coal cellar had been converted into a wine room.
- basementSubterranean building level
- bunkerReinforced subterranean stronghold
- storageSpace for keeping goods
- darkAbsence of light
- dustyCoated with fine particles
soot · shovel · delivery chute · furnace · boiler · damp · underground · below stairs · chute · bin · black · pitch black · grimy · stairs · trapdoor · trap door · heating · chimney sweep
coal cellarattic
Space beneath the roof
loft · garret · rooftop · upper floor · penthouse
coal cellarconservatory
Glass-enclosed plant room
sunroom · solarium · drawing room · parlor · salon
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