All Mother insists on is plenty of headroom.
"Love Conquers All"
Robert C. Benchley
Then I recollected there wasn't five feet of headroom below, and that the place, even with the hatches off, was hot enough to boil water in.
"Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas"
Lloyd Osbourne
Since there was not enough headroom upwards it had dug downwards.
"Letters from France"
C. E. W. Bean