Lilliput Lane Cottages T to Z
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Journeying at a pace of about ten miles a day, our lucky traveller will reach Appleby tomorrow, just in time to trade for horses and socialise at the horse fair!
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Tu Hwnt I’r Bont once served as an ancient courthouse and is now a tearoom welcoming visitors (including our dragon?) from far and wide to the market town of Llanrwst
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This couple has just tied the know and are posed outside the doors of this beautiful church.
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Wom
Cheshire
North West
Height: 5.5cm
What a coincidence! The initials
carved above the door of this
seventeenth-century building in
Congleton spell out 'WOM', which
is a local dialect word meaning
'home'.
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Essex, East Anglia 7.5 cm
Inspired by St. John the Baptist's, Little Maplestead. Our happy newly-weds gather outside in the warm sunshine for a photograph, or two, of their very special day!
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Yam Yat Farm
Cumbria
North West
Height: 5.5cm
In the old Cumbrian dialect, the word 'yam' means
'home' and 'yat' means 'gate'. Therefore the name of
this Lakeland vernacular gem literally translates as
'Home Gate Farm'!
In the old Cumbrian dialect, the word 'yam' means
'home' and 'yat' means 'gate'. Therefore the name of
this Lakeland vernacular gem literally translates as
'Home Gate Farm'!
Height: 5.5cm
In the old Cumbrian dialect, the word 'yam' means
'home' and 'yat' means 'gate'. Therefore the name of
this Lakeland vernacular gem literally translates as
'Home Gate Farm'!
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Hertfordshire - Middle England
Inspired by the overhanging thatch, which is supported on rustic timber supports, our sculptors
decided that this picturesque nineteenth-century thatched lodge from Shenley should be given
a rainy theme and a name befitting its shape!
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North Yorkshire - North East & Yorkshire
This famous seventeenth-century whitewashed rubble inn at West Witton is situated on the A684
trans-Pennine road between Leyburn and Hawes and was once the haunt of the world's most
famous vet - James Herriot, who is said to have been a regular imbiber here in the early years of
his veterinary career.
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Local legend tells how two outlaw brothers built the Ugly House, in 1475, using an ancient law which stated that if a house was built between sunset and the following sunrise then the builders could claim freehold - - as long as it had walls, a roof and a smoking chimney!
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A cottage in the pretty Dorset village of Puddletown was the inspiration for this beautiful thatched florist's shop. Puddletown was immortalised as Weatherbury, by the nineteenth-century novelist, Thomas Hardy in Far From the Maddening Crowd.
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2007 Anniversary Cottage
On Backorder
We couldn't have 'wished' for a prettier Anniversary piece than this gorgeous building from Thorpe Market, complete with its very own thatched wishing well and arguably our most beautiful garden to date!
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Currently a bookshop, our scene depicts this wonderful timber-frames building from Long Crendon as the village hall and the setting for the local Women's Institute's annual bring and buy sale.
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