Pothouse

This "pithouse" is a small extension or construction located in front or next to an urban house. It is an deepened space partly above the ground, They were already known in the Middle Ages, when it like the main building, was pulled out of wood.

Many canalhouses in Amsterdam have such an extension as is the case here.

Originally, the name was Puthouse because the buildings were built over a rainwater collection pit. Water could be drained from the basement of the house inside the the wellhouse. Later the spaces are often enlarged and changed from destination. For example as house workshops, storage rooms, or as kitchen pothouses with a toilet. In the Netherlands there are dozens of pothouses which are valued as monuments. Linking to "Our World Tuesday"