a room or unfinished space directly beneath the roof of a building
the ski chalet features additional sleeping quarters in its cockloft, which is accessible through a pull-down ladder
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Recent Examples of cockloftUpdate City box 341 - 109 & 111 Chestnut St. Fire extended into the cockloft of both buildings.—Bailey Allen, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2023 The fire was found in an apartment on the sixth floor of the building and quickly spread to the area between the apartment ceiling and the roof, known as the cockloft, according to the FDNY.—Amanda Jackson and Rob Frehse, CNN, 7 Apr. 2021 When the fire reaches the cockloft, the top of the roof explodes and shoots out flames.—Nathaniel Penn, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2019
This is an ideal pick for combination sleepers, who can adjust these pillows to suit their ideal loft depending on their needs.
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Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
24 Oct. 2025
The building would be surrounded on all four sides, sandwiched between the church and a ten-story MetroTech building, with the rowhouses in front and BellTel lofts in the back.
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