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LL3377 Lilliput Lane Old Blacksmiths Shop | $49.50
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L3377 THE OLD BLACKSMITH’S SHOP
DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY, SCOTLAND
Height: 4.5cm Length: 10.5cm
Built in 1712, the humble rendered cob walls
and heavy slate roof of this old clay daubin
at Gretna lend this traditional Borders cottage
a rather unassuming air, however its romantic
story is legendary around the globe.
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LL3293 Old Lifeboat Station | $44.00
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Old Lifeboat Sation, by Lilliput Lane, model LL3293
Looe Caradon, Cornwall
This delightful little building has been inspired by the former lifeboat shed and watchtower in Looe. Typical of the Victorian era, its grand Italianate style lends rather a grand look to what would otherwise be a rather humble construction of rubble walls finished off with granite quoins and red brick detailing around the windows.
Looe got its station in 1866 but it wasn't until 1902 that the lifeboat featured on our model arrived for service. The Ryder served for twenty-eight years, right up until the station was closed in 1930, and during this time she was launched twelve times and saved thirty-seven lives. Today, the fully restored Ryder is the only surviving Standard Self-Righting Lifeboat in the country and is moored in Polperro Harbour as part of the Heritage Museum display.
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LL3357 Lilliput Lane The Old Post Office | $54.00
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L3357 The Old Post Office
Nether Wallop, Hampshire
7 cm High (2.7 ins) 7.5 cm Wide (2.9 ins) 7.5 cm Deep (2.9 ins)
Our delightful 'Stores & Post Office' has been inspired by a former post office-cum-bakery in the pretty Hampshire village of Nether Wallop and depicts a bygone era when the post office was the heart of village life.
A time when people didn't have mobile phones, let alone a phone in their home, and so the village post office served as the hub for communications; a place where you could go, not only to post a letter, but to buy groceries and make important phone calls too.
Nether Wallop and its sister villages, Middle Wallop and Over Wallop, are known collectively as The Wallops, and retain an air of serenity in our bustling modern times. Nether Wallop boasts an eleventh-century church, which was chosen as the location for filming the BBC's television series adaptation of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, starring Joan Hickson.
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Old Vicarage by Lilliput Lane, model LL3271
Methwold, Norfolk
Remarkably, there hasn't been a resident vicar in the Old Vicarage in Methwold for the last two centuries, but that is not the only interesting question that surrounds this venerable old building, because one is left wondering just why such a magnificent and imposing building was built in such a remote, rural location. The answer must surely be that Methwold was once a village of some esteem, as other impressive buildings have also survived.
All questions aside, one is left in no doubt that this is a building of great architectural importance, hence its Grade-I-Listed status. The beauty of the jettied, timber framed building with close studding is surpassed only by the glorious late fifteenth century brick gable end with impressive central octagonal chimney that is uniquely decorated with various early Tudor patterns in terracotta and brick.
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The Pagoda by Lilliput Lane, model LL3223
London, South East
Height: 7.0cm Length: 9.5cm
This unusual Chinese-style building, with dramatic roof with upturned edges was built as folly for the third Duke of Buccleuch - hence the thistle emblem carved into the leaded roof of the original.
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Lilliput Lane - The Perfect Mum, model LL3007
The 'perfect' parent on our cottage from Weston Turville is actually a duck! You see, in the early parts of the twentieth century, many of the inhabitants of the village made their living by breeding white Aylesbury ducks, for the London markets!
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Picture This by Lilliput Lane, model LL3247
This Grade II Listed thatched cottage with weatherboarded outbuilding from Honington was the winning entry of the 2008 Annual Fair Photographic Competition, so it is only fitting that we've included a camera poised to take the winning photo!
Situated on the banks of the River Stour and voted the 'best kept village in Warwickshire' for many years, the village of Honington has many beautiful buildings and thatched cottages to please the lover of all things vernacular, but it is this early eighteenth-century dwelling that won the judges over.
Beneath its steeply-pitched thatch peep two dormer windows and painted cob walls, which, when combined with its pretty blue window frames and door with rustic gabled porch, make it look every bit like the quintessential chocolate box cottage if ever there was.
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Pitlochry Lodge by Lilliput Lane, model LL3093
This epitomy of Scottish Baronial splendour comes complete with the quintessential carved thistle head emblems and has been inspired by the gatehouse to the Atholl Palace Hotel, Pitlochry.
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LL3373 Lilliput Lane The Pepper Pot | $50.00
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L3373 THE PEPPER POT,
GODALMING
SURREY, SOUTH EAST
Height: 7.5cm Length: 7.0cm
Our unusual octagonal building has
been inspired by Godalmings old
town hall, lovingly referred to as
the Pepper Pot by the townsfolk,
and which was in use for the official
meetings of the Borough Council
until 1908, when the offices moved
to Bridge Street.
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Perfect Frinde by Lilliput Lane, model LL3033
Over the years, many Lilliputs have taken inspiration from the bountiful supply of real-life chocolate box cottages from Broadway and this pretty cruck-framed one topped with thatch is a real architectural gem we just couldn't resist adding to our collection - - can you?
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Pineapple Spa by Lilliput Lane, model LL3291
Our delightful Pineapple Spa has been inspired by the central cottage of a group of stone-built dwellings in Lower Swell known as Spa Cottages, which were built in 1807 to house a Chalybeate (iron rich) spring that was discovered here at that time.
The spring can be found in the cellar of the house, but access is somewhat restrictive to visitors wishing to partake of the waters, so it is now pumped up to a fountain in the hallway upstairs, which is appropriately decorated with a pineapple carving!
Highly unusual, the ashlar facade features Indian-inspired details said to imitate the Hindu style of Sezincote, a magnificent mansion nearby that's considered to be the forerunner to Brighton Pavilion and was designed by Samuel Pepys Cockerell. Note the pineapple finial above the doorway's detailed canopy as well as ogee-shaped arched windows with honeysuckle finials.
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Pixie House LL3169
Cornwall, South West
Height: 4.5cm Length: 7.0cm
Perhaps the most photographed building in Boscastle, this building was originally built as a stable. Today it serves two purposes; both of which are very much appreciated by the eager tourists!
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The Plot Room by Lilliput Lane, model LL3170
Northamptonshire, Midlands
Height: 6.0cm Length: 6.5cm
This half-timbered gatehouse to the Manor of Ashby St Ledgers is reputed to be the meeting place used by the Gunpowder Plotters in 1605 - hence the barrels of gunpowder!
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Potting Shed by Lilliput Lane, model LL3323
Ashampstead, Berkshire
Two of a Kind Collection
With its pretty white picket fence and vibrant well-kept garden, this Grade-II-Listed cottage is obviously home to a keen gardener and can be found in the small Berkshire village of Ashampstead. Known as Esshamstede in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the village is much as it was all those centuries ago, and remains a quiet rural place to live.
Parts of this delightful timber-framed building with red brick and flint refacing date back to the seventeenth century and inside can still be found a well, which used to supply water to the village. How handy that must prove to our inhabitant who - wheelbarrow at the ready - obviously loves gardening, which is why our Potting Shed Corner comes complete with a complementary miniature Potting Shed to complete the scene.
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LL2775 Pride of Scotland | $45.00
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Pride of Scotland by Lilliput Lane, model LL2775
This lodge house, built in the Scottish Baronial style, provides the dignified entrance to the Dalmore estate on the outskirts of Helensburgh.
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The Pudding CLub by Lilliput Lane, model LL3331
Mickleton, Gloucestershire
Built as a private house in 1871, The Three Ways House Hotel has been receiving guests since the early 1900s but it was in the 1980s that it gained its global reputation, with the formation of its famous Pudding Club in 1985. The club was formed in protest against the decline of the great British 'pud', and since then sweet-toothed enthusiasts flock to the hotel every Friday night to sample its delights.
A typical club night involves taking self-indulgence to its limits with up to seven puddings being available, with the stipulation that they are eaten one at a time. Could you do it? Fear not, if you are overcome with exhaustion you can always stay over for the night in one of the luxurious pudding-themed rooms, including the Sticky Toffee Room, the Chocolate Suite, the Spotted Dick Room, and the Oriental Ginger Syrup Sponge Room…mmm, sounds delicious!
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Push The Boat Out
Inspired by a typical 1950s riverboat that has been lovingly restored and is now
permanently moored up alongside the riverbank somewhere deep in the beautiful
English countryside.
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