cottage

It begins in a country parsonage, moves through social insecurity to final productive years in a cottage Austen shared with a beloved sister, mother and close friend.

The family lived in a cottage nearby and befriended members of the Brooklyn Dodgers, who stayed at the inn for spring training during World War II.

Inspired by cinema setpieces and centuries-old European cottages, architects designed playful homes with turrets and gables on the outside and nooks and crannies on the inside.

Eventually the children reached the bakehouse, a stone cottage that housed a massive brick oven with a double-width chimney.

From the outside, it looked like a gingerbread cottage from a storybook, much to the delight of the littlest Swanburne girls.