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The Crooked House
LILL3001 $75.00
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 builder could claim freehold---as long as it
had walls, a roof and smoking chimney!
Height 5.0cm
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Sugar Loaf Cottage LILL3026 $42.00
Typical Home
Counties architecture is portrayed in the timber frame and brick
construction of this 17th century cottage. Named because its roof
resembles a conical sugarloaf.
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The Perfect Friend LILL3033 $30.00
From Worcestershire,
this cottage was inspired by one of the many chocolate box cottages from
Broadway, and this pretty cruck-framed on is a real architectural gem
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Manx Dovecot LILL3087 $30.00
From Isle of Man,
this stome dovecote can be fond on the Ballamoar Castle Estate at Jurby. |
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Walnut Tree Cottage LILL3089 $30.00
This 17th century
cottage from Great Waldingfield was once a much larger timber framed
building and the chimney would have been internal before the demolition
of part of the original structure left it exposed
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Hidden Cottages LILL3090 $42.00
These remarkable cave dwellings,
which are carved into the mass of soft sandstone at Kinver Edge known as
Holy Austin Rock, are apparently named after a 16th century hermit, Holy
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Hellifield Peel LILL3091 $75.00
A derelict
scheduled Ancient Monument, set in parkland in the North Yorkshire Dales
near Skipton,
it was restored
from 'ruin to castle' by Karen and Francis Shaw- as featured on TV's
'Grand Designs' in February 2007
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The House That Moved LILL3092 $57.00
This is one of
the most famous of Exeter's Tudor buildings. its claim to fame is that
is was actually moved from it original position to make way for a new
inner city bypass in 1961 - under the constant gaze of the world's
media.
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