Lilliput Lane Cottages A to B
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The Beach Hut
L2836
Norfolk
East Anglia
Height: 7.0cm
What better place to be beside the sea, than in a
beautiful beach hut like this one from Wells Beach,
near Wells-next-the-Sea?
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Most villages have at least one claim to fame, and, for the small and beautiful Essex village of Stisted, just outside Braintree, that claim to fame is its chimneys! You can see why, if the statuesque chimneys standing proud atop the handmade red plain roof tiles of this very impressive building is anything to go by!
There are similar ornamental chimneys to be found all over the parish — all the work of a local bricklayer whose grave, which can be found in the village churchyard, is appropriately adorned with two chimneys!
It is former squire of Stisted Manor, Onley Savill Onley (1795 to 1890), for whom thanks are due, for it was he who is responsible for ‘modernising and embellishing’ the village. His initials (OSO) can be found on many of the houses in and about the village.
But why the name, Bless This House? Look closely and you will see the culprit for it is the dog and his evident love of his home, that determined the name of this piece, not the mid-nineteenth-century building built in Tudor Revival style!
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Visitors to the pretty Hampshire village of Longstock, would be forgiven for thinking that this pretty timber-framed thatched cottage has always been semi-detached, whereas in actual fact it (and it’s neighbour, our Good As Gold) started out life in the eighteenth century as one building.
Situated in the fertile Test Valley, villagers of old would eke a living either as farm labourers or from basket- and mat-making. Children would plait the prepared sedge grass gathered along the banks of the river Test, and the women would then form them into rush mats and baskets.
As the name suggests, the owner of this cottage is well and truly ‘brassed off’ with their very naughty dog, who has been relegated to the kennel yet again if only theirs could be as ‘good as gold’ like next door’s dog, instead of always being in the ‘dog house!
Brassed Off is one of a pair of pretty cottages, which, when put side by side with its companion piece, Good As Gold, completes the scene as it appears in real life.
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Leicestershire, Midlands 7.0 cm
This adorable little thatched cottage from the small Leicestershire village of Peatling Parva has graced its surroundings since the early seventeenth century, which perhaps explains the way in which it has such an air of 'comfortableness' about it, for it has certainly earned the right to belong here over the last four hundred years!
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Burnham Thorpe
Rectory
L2827
Norfolk
East Anglia
Height: 8.0cm
This delightful rectory is
the birthplace of Britain's
greatest Naval hero,
Vice Admiral
Horatio Lord Nelson.
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2007 Anniversary Cottage
The real dwelling, on which April Cottage is based, is situated on the fringe of Alice Holt Forest, on the border between Hampshire and Surrey and was constructed during the later part of the sixteenth century.
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According to local legend, Bridge House was built over Stock Beck in an attempt to avoid paying land tax, but was more probably built in the sixteenth century by the owners of Ambleside Hall, to connect the Hall with orchards that lay on the other side of the stream.
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This fine hostelry is actually the home of Stilton cheese - - thanks to Cooper Thornhill, who was landlord at The Bell Inn from 1730 to 1759, and who originally served this delicious crumbly 'blue' cheese to his customers.
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Anne Hathaway's Cottage
L2825
Warwickshire
Midlands
Height: 6.5cm
This pretty cottage from Shottery was the family
home of William Shakespeare's wife, Anne Hathaway,
before they married in 1582.
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