In addition, three cottars, who owned a cottage and garden, also feature.

The village library opened in 1962 on the site of the 16th century cottage and tea garden, The Orchard.

In the gardens there is a topiary lawn, herb garden, tropical garden and long herbaceous cottage garden-styled borders.

The status of bordar or cottager ranked below a serf in the social hierarchy of a manor, holding a cottage, garden and just enough land to feed a family.

The cottage garden was made by arranging flotsam washed up nearby, interspersed with endemic salt-loving beach plants, both set against the bright shingle.

The cost of Shallowford was £ 350 and the property included a farmhouse, a cottage, courtyard, garden and nine fields along which a river ran.

Sir Edwin Lutyens furthered his long-standing working relationship with horticulturist Gertrude Jekyll, whose devotion to traditional cottage garden plants and roses greatly influenced the appearance of the cemeteries.

In July 1887, a Scottish academic, Professor James Blyth, built a cloth-sailed wind turbine in the garden of his holiday cottage in Marykirk and used the electricity it produced to charge accumulators which he used to power the lights in his cottage.

Since moved to a different location in the Garden, this English cottage garden exhibits more than 80 plants mentioned in William Shakespeare's plays and poems.

Beckley Park, Oxfordshire: cottage garden topiary formulas taken up in an early 20th century elite English garden in a historic house setting

The following generation, represented by James Shirley Hibberd, rediscovered the charm of topiary specimens as part of the mystique of the " English cottage garden ", which was as much invented as revived from the 1870s:

The books of William Robinson describing his own " wild " gardening at Gravetye Manor in Sussex, and the sentimental picture of a rosy, idealized " cottage garden " of the kind pictured by Kate Greenaway, which had scarcely existed historically, both influenced the development of the mixed herbaceous borders that were advocated by Gertrude Jekyll at Munstead Wood in Surrey from the 1890s.

* Romantic English cottage garden revival.

The old garden keeper's cottage also survives to this day.

The southern part of Scotstoun is characterised by late 19th / early 20th century tenements, while at its heart, and dating from a similar period, is a grid-like estate of mainly terraced cottage style villas with distinctive English styling in wide tree-lined streets, an early example of Ebenezer Howard-type garden suburb town planning.

William Robinson ( 5 July 1838 – 17 May 1935 ) was an Irish practical gardener and journalist whose ideas about wild gardening spurred the movement that evolved into the English cottage garden, a parallel to the search for honest simplicity and vernacular style of the British Arts and Crafts movement.

Robinson's source of inspiration was the simple cottage garden, long neglected by the fashionable landscapists.

" In 1881 a portion of a highly intricate coloured floor mosaic or tessellated pavement, depicting different types of fish, were unearthed during excavations in the garden of a cottage.

The grounds are noted for their cottage and kitchen garden, as well as their herbaceous borders and rose displays.

* The Chaumière des coquillages, a thatched-roof cottage with its marble interior decorated with shells and mother of pearl, was built in 1779-1780 in the English garden of the Domain of Rambouillet by Claude-Martin Goupy, the architect of the duc de Penthièvre, for the princesse de Lamballe, Penthièvre's widowed daughter-in-law.

Morgan advanced a wide variety of cooperative enterprises and cottage industries and created a number of planned towns that followed the English garden city model.

People having second homes because of working in another part of the country or retaining a holiday cottage are difficult to fix at a particular address sometimes causing double counting or houses being mistakenly identified as vacant.

Cardonald was divided into North and South Cardonald, with the south mostly composed of owner-occupied and privately-rented cottage flats, whilst the north was made up of owner-occupied and rented accommodation owned by Glasgow Corporation, divided by the new Paisley Road West, including terraced houses, flats, and semi-detached property.

Many interesting Victorian houses around the Tannoch Conservation Area show Scottish cottage, Scottish Baronial, Classical architecture and Gothic influences.

Jean de Quetteville of Jersey subsequently began preaching there, initially in a cottage at Le Clos à Geon and then at various houses around Sark.

" Toad Hole Museum " is a former marshman's cottage and also houses the Broads Information Centre.

There are less than one dozen houses that claim a Ringling Road address ; but those houses range from a small, stone cottage to large, imposing mansions.

While the smorgasbord of later additions on these houses gives the older part of town an eccentric and fanciful personality, each of these older houses has a small, tent-shaped core dating from the first cottage construction.

While most original company housing remains in good condition several of the smaller ' cottage ' houses have been removed and several of the downtown area business buildings are now either private residences or have been removed.

Some of the houses involved in these cottage industries are still to be seen in Rose Street.

Number 10 Downing Street was originally three houses: a mansion overlooking St. James's Park ( called " the House at the Back "), a townhouse behind it and a cottage.

Railroad historian George Drury later said the merger resembled " a late-in-life marriage to which each partner brings a house, a summer cottage, two cars, and several complete sets of china and glassware — plus car payments and mortgages on the houses.

Many houses were built over the next few years in cottage estates.

Montgomery's cottage still stands, although it was moved to 77 Livingston Street, where it houses the local Daughters of the American Revolution chapter ; the street it was on was later named in his honor.

As a result, Glenbuck became largely derelict and by the time Shankly's ghost writer John Roberts visited it in 1976, there were only twelve houses left, including a cottage owned by Shankly's sister Elizabeth ( Liz ), whom Roberts described as " the last of the children of Glenbuck ".

While Port Hammond is known for its small cottage like mill houses originally built by the local mill to house its workers.

As such, a cottage industry of Oz books by mostly amateur authors and small publishing houses have been made in which Princess Dorothy of Oz lives on even to our present day.

The Habitat for Humanity theme cottage houses students that actively work with the local chapter and national office of Habitat for Humanity.

Historian Kenneth Jackson wrote of Levitt & Sons: " The family that had the greatest impact on postwar housing in the United States was Abraham Levitt and his sons, William and Alfred, who ultimately built more than 180, 000 houses and turned a cottage industry into a major manufacturing process ".

English cottage housing and Victorian houses were used for housing Europeans and Nigerian colonial civil servants in the early 20th century until Europeans started trying to adapt their architecture to the tropical climate.

By 1753 there were other houses around it, and the cottage itself remained intact until 1851, becoming a hostelry for foot-travellers and becoming known as the Shepherd's Ha.

Three new houses were built further back from the street ( these are the two buildings to the left and right of the gate ), and the old regents room was declared the gatekeepers cottage, bringing the total number of rooms to 14.

The Merville development was of 256 apartments, 28 cottage flats, 146 detached and semi-detached houses and a row of 14 shops.