Houses in books....where do you want to live ?

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Just reading the thread about homes and somebody mentioned no food smells in the kitchen.
This made me think of Penelope Keeling's house in The Shellseekers.
She has a huge basement kitchen with French doors into the garden, there is a scrubbed pine table with a jug of flowers on it and a delicious smell of garlic and herbs. She has shelves full of books and lots of records and silk indian throws on the sofa and omg! I want to live there!

Which fictional house do you want to live in?

@WhoisRebecca

Definitely Pemberley. I’m convinced that’s why Lizzie changed her mind and agreed to marry Darcy. Or Manderlay before the fire and without the creepy servants.

I came on to say Pemberley too! Hell yeah.

Pemberley definitely. Or, for something less elaborate, I'd settle for Poldark's house.

There was a story that won the BBC short story competition a few years back about a guy staying in a cottage along the cliffs in some isolated place and the location sounded amazing!

I always fancied Mole's burrow in The Wind in the Willows. Very cosy and lots of food!

Or is it Badger's with the thick slices of ham...

@TheYearOfSmallThings Did you know that Green Knowe is a real house? Under normal circumstances you can book to go on a tour. It's beautiful.

Trennels, Freudesheim, the one in the Cazalet Chronicles, Lord Peter Wimsey’s house in Piccadilly….

@TheChippendenSpook you just gave me the biggest smile. Those were some of my favourite books growing up. The absolute magic of their world consumed me as a child. Thank you!

I too would like to live in Green Knowe. Not sure about the ghosts though, even friendly ones.

Green Gables please.

I need details about these places please?

The Burrow from Harry Potter or Crickhollow from Lord of the Rings.

@DigOutThoseLemonHandWipes

Yes!!!

I want to live in The Star and Sixpence pub in Holly Hepburns books

Howard's End.

@TheYearOfSmallThings Did you know that Green Knowe is a real house?

I've been there! I would love to go at Christmas, but the friend who booked it couldn't, so we went to a reading of ghost stories by candlelight in the music room around Halloween instead. It was lovely, but the house in my mind was more remote from the village, and that is the house I want to live in.

The Weasley House in Harry Potter - with magical cooking pots that would suit me!

@TheYearOfSmallThings I grew up in a house pretty much the same as Alfie’s.

Now, I’d choose any of the rambling Scottish piles in Iain Banks’ novels. Probably the McHoan home in Lochgair.

Patty's Place in Anne of the Island. Whenever I read that book I have an urge to live there in their cosy little bookish home.

(In reality I'd be irked by the lack of booze and lack of overnight gentlemen callers )

@Avocadowoman

Trennels, Freudesheim, the one in the Cazalet Chronicles, Lord Peter Wimsey’s house in Piccadilly….

The snag with Trennels is that you'd have Karen, uptight, periodically violent Edwin, and their offspring alongside in the Tranters' house...?

And no, even with its incredible expanding properties it starts out as an averagely large ex-guesthouse chalet, then morphs into somewhere with several semi-separate 'wings' inhabited by Stacie Benson and Doris Trelawney Freudesheim would sure be haunted by the spirit of Joey falling into packing cases and making amusing sandwiches, not to mention a Margot-style poltergeist that threw bookends.

Will fight you for Howard's End, though, @bringbackfonzi. Or Peter Wimsey's Piccadilly flat, complete with first editions, piano and Bunter discreetly serving drinks...

Another house I'd love to visit is Thackers farm from Alison Uttley's A Traveller in Time. Specifically the magical kitchen. It's a B&B so you can actually stay there!

Green Gables would have been lovely. There is a model of it in Bekonscot model village.
I wouldn't mind the house on the cliffs in Mary Wesley's Camomile Lawn with the terror run along the cliff top.

OP, Rosamunde Pilcher was exactly who popped into my head when I saw this thread. I’d like The Dower House featured in Coming Home. Or a little more ambitiously, Nancherrow 😊

In one of Rosamunde Pilcher’s books, a character owns a news house in London and she gives keys out like candy (and of course a romance starts when two people it’s keys show up at the same time).

I would love a little mews house in London!

Oh yes, that's in Coming Home. The handy little London mews.

The castle in I Capture the Castle.