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Name for cellar doors priorityman@gmail.com 07-27-2007
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Posted by priorityman@gmail.com on July 27, 2007, 10:27 am
What is the name of those door, often metal, at the back of a house?
They lead up from the basement, are horizontal or slightly inclined
from horizontal, I think often in a concrete frame. The swing to the
side and you generally come up stairs to the backyard.

I am looking for the common name for this feature, if there is a
common name for them. If not a more professional terms would be good.

This is for a fiction work.

Thank you.


Posted by HVS on July 27, 2007, 10:37 am
On 27 Jul 2007, priorityman@gmail.com wrote

> What is the name of those door, often metal, at the back of a
> house? They lead up from the basement, are horizontal or
> slightly inclined from horizontal, I think often in a concrete
> frame. The swing to the side and you generally come up stairs
> to the backyard.
>
> I am looking for the common name for this feature, if there is a
> common name for them. If not a more professional terms would be
> good.
>
> This is for a fiction work.

Not trying to be smart, but I think they're most commonly called
"cellar doors".

Some other types have other names -- "cellar flaps" or "hatches" for
those ones that lie flat in the sidewalk -- but I can't imagine
anyone mistaking what you meant if you wrote "cellar doors".

("You'll be sorry when you see me/Sliding down our cellar door...")

--
Cheers, Harvey
Architectural and topographical historian



Posted by priorityman@gmail.com on July 27, 2007, 10:52 am
> On 27 Jul 2007, priority...@gmail.com wrote
>
> > What is the name of those door, often metal, at the back of a
> > house? They lead up from the basement, are horizontal or
> > slightly inclined from horizontal, I think often in a concrete
> > frame. The swing to the side and you generally come up stairs
> > to the backyard.
>
> > I am looking for the common name for this feature, if there is a
> > common name for them. If not a more professional terms would be
> > good.
>
> > This is for a fiction work.
>
> Not trying to be smart, but I think they're most commonly called
> "cellar doors".
>
> Some other types have other names -- "cellar flaps" or "hatches" for
> those ones that lie flat in the sidewalk -- but I can't imagine
> anyone mistaking what you meant if you wrote "cellar doors".
>
> ("You'll be sorry when you see me/Sliding down our cellar door...")
>
> --
> Cheers, Harvey
> Architectural and topographical historian

Thanks. I have cellar doors in there now. If it wasn't so central to
the story I wouldn't care.

You can also have a staircase that goes down to vertical doors that
lead to the basement (the stairs, thus, being outside), but these
doors are not like that.

I just noticed your 'Cheers'. I should have asked what they would be
called in the USA, though I suspect your answer will still hold.

Thanks in any case.


Posted by HVS on July 27, 2007, 11:01 am
On 27 Jul 2007, priorityman@gmail.com wrote

> I just noticed your 'Cheers'. I should have asked what they
> would be called in the USA, though I suspect your answer will
> still hold.

I'm bilingual. :)

(Born in Canada, and didn't move to England until I was 30 -- which
was, gulp, 25 years ago this year....)

--
Cheers, Harvey
Architectural and topographical historian



Posted by HVS on July 27, 2007, 12:09 pm
On 27 Jul 2007, Don wrote

> "HVS"> wrote
>> (Born in Canada, and didn't move to England until I was 30 --
>> which was, gulp, 25 years ago this year....)
>
> Don't look back, I'm gaining on ya! LOL
> 52 this year.
> I saw Bob Morrison is 59, somehow I had been thinking he was a
> little older than that.
>
> Hey, guess what?
> You can get those *senior discount* meals at the establishments
> when you're 55!

I've already had a travel discount for the "over 50s", and am takin'
any of it I can get -- no shame at all!


--
Cheers, Harvey
Architectural and topographical historian



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