Fortunately it was built in more modern times with suitably high ceilings (well, just!). Yes, wish there was more internal space, but there again, it has some good outhouses that come in handy for storage of certain non-essential items.
Only really the living room and hall built between 1590 and 1720, the rest is an L shaped extension with a kitchen, plant room, bedroom and ensuite and self contained granny flat. The ceiling on the living room is 6 ft at the beam but I dug down. It was 5ft 6. The door to the hall is 5 ft but I am used to it. The hall is double height. I should have put a crawl space in for storage.
Nope. Fecking hate them. We used to hire holiday cottages when I was a teenager and I always found them horribly claustrophobic and always walloped my head at least twice in the week we were there. I am big and tall and clumsy though which is a bad combination for cottage living.
Yes. However, our friends have a Grade II thatched cottage (utterly stunning chocolate box place) and it’s a ballache for planning and renovations. Gorgeous tho. Thatch does mean a lot of bugs and squirrels and creatures, tho. At least we can go over whenever and enjoy it. Their back garden is three acres plus a horse paddock. It’s pretty idyllic.
If all goes either to plan or to sh1t, yes. A little place on the West Coast. Fisherman's cottage so not too pokey re head height. No unnecessary stuff as OB says. Very relaxing. Dostadning.
It’s our last night after 3 weeks back in the motherland and we’ve been in our usual 1 bed Airbnb flat. It’s great. No stuff, no clutter.
I don’t want to go back to London to the house to the London life. I feel like this every time we come down. Gets that much harder to leave here and go there.
I’m in full fantasy shopping mode atm it also includes a bicycle, paddle board, kayak, solitude, zero stuff, obedient very quiet book loving phone loathing Edwardian children and a studio at the end of the solitary garden where I can be alone with my oh so many thoughts whilst wearing stylish knitwaar and having lovely books that I read when not working and baking things with many vegetables and foraged berries for my beloveds
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Darcey does.
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Which one of you does the pride and which the prejudice?
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Yes. Built 1590, or at least a third of it was. Not really wonky but oddly laid out. I love it.
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Aren’t you always bumping your head and wishing the rooms were bigger?
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I do.
Fortunately it was built in more modern times with suitably high ceilings (well, just!). Yes, wish there was more internal space, but there again, it has some good outhouses that come in handy for storage of certain non-essential items.
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Only really the living room and hall built between 1590 and 1720, the rest is an L shaped extension with a kitchen, plant room, bedroom and ensuite and self contained granny flat. The ceiling on the living room is 6 ft at the beam but I dug down. It was 5ft 6. The door to the hall is 5 ft but I am used to it. The hall is double height. I should have put a crawl space in for storage.
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I did once. Too pokey, not enough natural light, too many rodents.
But on a cold winter’s evening, with the log fire cracking, there was real hygge.
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Nope. Fecking hate them. We used to hire holiday cottages when I was a teenager and I always found them horribly claustrophobic and always walloped my head at least twice in the week we were there. I am big and tall and clumsy though which is a bad combination for cottage living.
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It’s my goal. Get out of London and swap the house for a beach front cottage.
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It also means you can’t have any stuff and that is another goal. No stuff.
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Yes. However, our friends have a Grade II thatched cottage (utterly stunning chocolate box place) and it’s a ballache for planning and renovations. Gorgeous tho. Thatch does mean a lot of bugs and squirrels and creatures, tho. At least we can go over whenever and enjoy it. Their back garden is three acres plus a horse paddock. It’s pretty idyllic.
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I get that OB, I always fancy the detecitives place in Death in Paradise.
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I have whacked my head in cottage beams. I feel your pain DD
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If all goes either to plan or to sh1t, yes. A little place on the West Coast. Fisherman's cottage so not too pokey re head height. No unnecessary stuff as OB says. Very relaxing. Dostadning.
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We are selling a cottage at the moment, it is very dinky and as OB says there isnt room for stuff which is no bad thing.
Fed up with all the critters.
super garden
When we were looking to buy it we viewed one called “Sides Tumble In”. Well, quite.
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It’s our last night after 3 weeks back in the motherland and we’ve been in our usual 1 bed Airbnb flat. It’s great. No stuff, no clutter.
I don’t want to go back to London to the house to the London life. I feel like this every time we come down. Gets that much harder to leave here and go there.
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A cottage doesn’t have to be old or wonky or r listed. Plenty of more modern properties that qualify as cottages.
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What are the qualifiers for a cottage Sails?
I’m in full fantasy shopping mode atm it also includes a bicycle, paddle board, kayak, solitude, zero stuff, obedient very quiet book loving phone loathing Edwardian children and a studio at the end of the solitary garden where I can be alone with my oh so many thoughts whilst wearing stylish knitwaar and having lovely books that I read when not working and baking things with many vegetables and foraged berries for my beloveds
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Personally I’d say it’s any rural house of three bedrooms or less set in a small plot so includes bungalows as well.
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a bicycle, paddle board, kayak …. whilst wearing stylish knitwaar and having lovely books
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ob m8 this hardly = no stuff …
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