snow-porch

Noun

snow porch (plural snow porches)

1. An unheated enclosure outside the entrance to a house or hut in the arctic, often used for storage.
   • Each hut design incorporates a "snow porch". The snow porch provides a buffer space between covered way and the hut, cool-room doors being fitted to both covered way and hut entrances.1963, Symposium on Antarctic Logistics, Held at Boulder, Colorado, August 13-17, 1962