Lilliput Lane Cottages L to M
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Ladies Lodge by Lilliput Lane, model LL3168
Gloucestershire, South West
Height: 6.0cm Length: 6.5cm
This delightful octagonal timber-framed lodge is from Bromesberrow in the Forest of Dean and was used as a school for girls during part of the nineteenth century.
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Lilliput Lane Last in Line,LL3374 | $36.50
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L3374 LAST IN LINE
SHROPSHIRE, MIDLANDS
Height: 6.0cm Length: 5.0cm
With its painted brick and
rubble walls, ornate facade, and
curved stepped gable, this early
nineteenth-century house in
Much Wenlock the annual
games of which inspired the
birth of the modern Olympic
Games is certainly a winner!
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Lets Celebrate L3419
Staffordshire, Midlands
Height: 6.5cm Length: 9.0cm
The quiet Staffordshire village of Ranton hosts our pretty scene of
celebrations for this 'special occasions' cottage. Draped balloons decorate
the gate and announce that celebrations are under way, as does the picnic
spread laid out on the lawn.
The Deed Card features a section to add your own personal message.
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Little Beehive by Lilliput Lane, model LL3094
One of a pair of Grade II Listed lodges to be found at Chilworth in the beautiful River Test Valley; built in the early nineteenth century, its decorative rustic tree trunks give the appearance of supporting the beehive-shaped thatched roof above.
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Grace Darling's Longstone Lighthouse
FARNE ISLAND, NOTHUMBERLAND.
Height: 9.5cm Length: 7.5cm.
Located in the north of the outer Firth of Forth, about five miles off the coast of the Scottish mainland. It was built in 1816, by celebrated Scottish civil engineer famous designer and builder of lighthouses, Robert Stevenson for the Northern Lighthouse Board, which purchased the island in 1814 from the Duke and Duchess of Portland for 60,000 pounds. Stevenson's grand structure replaced the former coal-fired beacon which was the last remaining private lighthouse in Scotland.
Grace Darling was the daughter of the lighthouse keeper and is remembered for her heroic efforts with her father in rescuing people from the wreck of a ship caught on the rocks.
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Love Letters L3422
Wiltshire, Southwest
Height: 7.0cm Length: 9.5cm
This pretty timber-framed cottage with brick infilling and impressive thatch
has a Valentine's gift on the doorstep and post box in the garden, which has
inspired the theme and name of our romantic cottage from the village of Ham.
The Deed Card features a section to add your own personal message.
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L3345 Maharajah's Well
Stoke Row, Oxfordshire
5 cm High (2 ins) 4.5 cm Wide (1.8 ins) 5 cm Deep (2 ins)
If ever there was a building with an intriguing story, then this octagonal red brick cottage in Stoke Row is it! It was built as a well keeper's cottage to house the warden of the adjacent Maharajah's Well. Both the cottage and the elaborately ornate well were given to the village as a gift from the Maharajah of Benares in 1863. The benevolent Indian prince also provided an orchard consisting of 101 cherry trees as a means of securing an income for the upkeep of the well.
It is believed that the well was an expression of gratitude for services rendered to the Maharajah by Edward Anderdon Reade, who whilst working in India as an Anglo-Indian Official for the East India Company told of the plight of Stoke Row's inadequate water supply. Mains water was finally piped in for the first time in 1906.
5 cm High (2 ins) 4.5 cm Wide (1.8 ins) 5 cm Deep (2 ins)
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Manor View, L3444
Pretty lodge, with stone slate roof and hectagonal ashlar stacks.
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LL3122 Many Happy Returns | $64.00
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Many Happy Returns by Lilliput Lane, model LL3122
It is not difficult to guess why this late eighteenth-century cottage was given its name; just one glance at the banner on the birthday party marquee is all
that’s needed! With its sturdy rubble and ashlar walls and practical slate roof, this charming building was originally the office to Wortley Top Forge !
South Yorkshire North East & Yorkshire
Height: 6.0cm Length: 9.0cm
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Messages for Christmas , L3462
Illuminated
SLINDON, WEST SUSSEX
. Height: 9.0cm Length: 13.5cm.
With it hipped thatched roof with 'eyebrow' dormer peeping out, Slindon's old post office has to be one of the prettiest in the country, and was built in the eighteenth century, using flint with red brick dressings.
Illuminated with plug in phone booth as shown in large photo
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Melt in the Mouth ,L3450
MELTON MOWBRAY, LEICESTERSHIRE.
Height: 7.5cm Length: 6.5cm.
Situated in the heart of the East Midlands, Melton Mowbray is perhaps best known for its world-famous pork pies, as well as Stilton cheese. The Melton Mowbray Pork Pie is said to have first became popular amongst the Georgian gentry and local Leicestershire huntsmen in the early nineteenth century who took to storing this 'portable meal' in their saddlebags. Today, fans of this edible treat travel from all over the world to taste 'the real thing'!
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Mothers World LL3177
Buckinghamshire, Middle England
Height: 7.5cm Length: 9.0cm
This beautiful cottage was once the home of the mother of the famous children's author, Roald Dahl, and is mentioned in his autobiography, Going Solo.
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Mums Make Memories L3414
Buckinghamshire, Middle England
Height: 7.0cm Length: 10.0cm
What could be more appropriate for a cottage to say 'thanks' to mum than
one with roses around the door, a gift on the doorstep and a mother duck and her ducklings in the garden? Well, this cottage has all of that, plus heaps of charm and history.
The ducks are not a tenuous link to parenthood but offer a strong clue as to the location of this pretty cottage, as they are Ayslebury ducks, and our scene is set in the village of Haddenham in Buckinghamshire's Aylesbury Vale, the home of Ayslebury ducks.
As well as its four duck ponds, Haddenham is noted for its unique buildings and high walls built of witchert (or wychert), a local building technique which uses layers of local clay mixed with straw which then
need to dry before the next layer is added (similar to the vernacular south west 'cob' method).
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LL3352 Lilliput Lane Mums Tickled Pink | $50.00
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L3352 Mum's Tickled Pink
Great Bookham, Surrey
7 cm High (2.7 ins) 8.5 cm Wide (3.3 ins) 7 cm Deep (2.7 ins)
Owned by the National Trust, Garden Cottage is available as a holiday let.
Our delightful cottage has been inspired by a nineteenth-century former gardener's cottage situated in the grounds of Polesden Lacey Estate, Surrey. Given its location right next to the rose garden it is little wonder that our inhabitant is 'tickled pink' by the rosy hues of the pretty gardens we have incorporated into our scene.
Polesden Lacey is perhaps most famous for two of its previous owners: Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816), playwright, poet, owner of the London Theatre Royal, and statesman; and The Hon Mrs Ronald Greville, Edwardian socialite and hostess extraordinaire, whose life evolved around entertaining and parties.
Set within the Surrey Hills and enjoying magnificent valley views across the North Downs it proved to be the perfect venue for entertaining her rich and famous friends including King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, who honeymooned here in 1923.
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