Lilliput Lane Cottages D to H
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Staffordshire, Midlands 7.0 cm
The perfect retirement gift! With its round chimney and pretty thatched roof, this nineteeth-century lodge offers the perfect place to hang up your boots and relax into the 'easy life', which is exactly what the owners of our Dun Roamin' have done! Look closely and you will see their walking boots hanging up by the door, put there to dry after the latest of their rambles over Tittensor.
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God's Providence House
L2821
Chester
North West
Height: 9.5cm
The unusual name of this highly ornate house in
Watergate Street (which was originally built in 1652,
but was rebuilt in 1862) is taken from an inscription
erected on the front of the building which reads:
'God's Providence is Mine Inheritance'.
The small photo shows the back view of the piece ; please click on it to see the larger front view.
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Good Luck
L2840
Hampshire
Middle England
Height: 5.0cm
Given the number of horseshoes on this delightful
seventeenth-century half-brick and timber-framed
cottage from Itchen Stoke, the owner is obviously
inviting some good luck!
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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 Brassed Off) 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 resident dog here is as ‘good as gold’ — unlike the naughty dog next door, who is ‘brassed off’ at constantly getting in to trouble!
Good As Gold is one of a pair of pretty cottages, which, when put side by side with its companion piece, Brassed Off, completes the scene as it appears in real life.
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Our windswept beach home has been inspired by one which can be found in Lindisfarne, The Holy Island; just off the extreme Northeast corner of England, near Berwick on Tweed.
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Lullington Church could certainly be a strong contender for the title of ‘smallest church in England’, or rather, it would be, if it wasn’t for the fact that what we see today is actually only a portion of the chancel of what would have originally been a much larger building! It is not certain as to how, or indeed when, the rest of the church was destroyed, but it is generally believed to have been during the time of Cromwell.
That aside, it still attracts a lot of attention, so much so that during Harvest Festivals, and other main events in the church calendar, half of the congregation has to sit outside, because there is only room for twenty seats inside the sixteen-foot-square interior!
Well, at least they are in good company during the Christmas services, as the Nativity scene depicting the holy infant whose birth they have come to celebrate is outside too!
Holy Christmas has been inspired by Lullington Church (Church Of The Good Shepherd), off Chapel Hill, Lullington.
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,Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland
Height: 6.0cm
Inspired by the Dumfries Museum and Camera Obscura Observatory, our quirky little residence is home to a budding observer.
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Worcestershire - Midlands
Built in around 1400, The Fleece Inn, Bretforton, is a most impressive black-and-white half-
timbered former longhouse. It first became a licensed house in 1848 and was handed down
through the same family, Byrd, since the days of Chaucer, until being left to the National Trust
by Lola Taplin (a direct descendant of the Byrds) in 1977.
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Scotland
Near to the churchyard of Greyfriars Kirk is a pub called Greyfriars Bobby's Bar, a popular
watering hole for tourists who flock to see the statue of Bobby, the faithful Skye terrier who kept
guard over his master's grave for fourteen years.
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Buckinghamshire - Middle England
With its delightful timber frame filled with whitewashed brick and plaster, pretty half-hipped thatch
roof and impressive external rendered chimneystack to the right, this seventeenth-century cottage
from Princess Risborough is an excellent example of the local vernacular style.
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Kent - South East
Built from buff brick, topped with a plain-tiled conical 'oast', and coming complete with adjoining
rendered thatched building with dormer windows, this former oast house from Tunstall was at one
time converted into a garage.
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This picturesque stone lodge with decorative bargeboarding is a fine example of nineteenth-century architecture of its type to be found on the Charleshill Estate.
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