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

[Antiqueanniesmagiclanternshow]

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?

@Avocadowoman

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

yes, home place, with the chilly bathrooms, and Zoe using all the water.

@Serpenta the one she grew up in, in A Country Child.

Those of you who fancy the school house in Fairacre, would you have Mrs Pringle come in and give it a good bottoming once a week?

The Moomin House.

Adam Dalgleish's flat high above the Thames, smelling of spices.

The Lovegoods' house in Harry Potter.

Talboys. (Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane's country farmhouse).

Has Mistlethwaite Manor been taken? I love the moors and it has a nice walled garden...

Flambards 🐎

Maybe every 4 weeks so she could be properly appalled by the quantity of crumbs down the back of the sofa.

[quote SilenceOfThePrams]@Serpenta the one she grew up in, in A Country Child.[/quote]
I love the descriptions of the house in A Country Child -- as a child I loved that Susan had winter and summer bedrooms.

Ooh yes. Mine have all been mentioned already - green knowe, the cazalets, the chamomile lawn….

Also, the farm in the Enid blyton farm books!

So many of them!

Rumer Godden is great at houses - China Court in the novel of the same name comes to mind.

When small I was obsessed with Malcolm Saville's Green Dolphin Adventure, and wanted to live there. Some family friends who we often visited helpfully moved to an ex-inn (the Old Angel in Bury St Edmunds) which was full of little up and down stairs, wonky floors, etc - exactly right, though I never did find the secret smugglers' passage.

Trennels, so long as the heating and hot water were modernised, definitely, ditto the Cazelets' house. And a non-fictional one, but which is part of fiction: Asthall Manor, the middle one of the Mitfords' childhood Big Houses.

@NotImpossible, I'd graciously allow the cats to stay too, and Gog and Magog on the mantelpiece. Aunt Jimsie would have been a lovely person to have about, preparing hot drinks when you came in late from a recital

@Antiqueanniesmagiclanternshow yes. And I’d want Mr Willets to do the garden too.

Not sure it would be a case of letting Mrs. Pringle do anything though, I can’t see you stopping her!

[quote ScottishNewbie]@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![/quote]
Aww no, thank you . I adored them as a child and I've read them to my two sons as well. I'm glad I made you smile

Mr Willet is fabulous. I love the way that he and mrs willett can turn their hands to absolutely anything. From gardening to sewing to baking .
Lovely.

I would also like Miss Read's workload instead of my own. I always laugh that she heads over to the school at 8.45 and never seems to do much marking, data, planning etc

I'd very much like to live in 28 barbary lane. With the view across the bay and a cupboard full of Fiesta ware plates.

Kirrin cottage or any other famous 5 property.
Green Knowe.
Pemberley.
Katy Carr's house.
I loved the sound of the Cider with Rosie house too.
And loads from American films like Home Alone.

I always liked Victoria Plum's house in the tree trunk or Ernest owl's tree house or the Nibbles' burrow in Blackberry farm when I was very young.

Granny Weatherwax's cottage. After Tiffany has moved back to the chalk for good. I'm all for a simple life.

One of Jane greens book somewhere in Nantucket

Green Gables is where Enid Blyton lived and Kirrin Cottage is where George lived (near Kirrin Island). Both sounded perfect

Cameron Cooke’s house in Rivals always appealed to me. And the house Octavia visits from the barge. I’d like one of Jilly’s English country gardens too,

The house in Hansel and Gretel. Without the witch.

I think Enid Blyton's own house was called Green Hedges. Which isn't a very inspiring name!

@NotMiranda

So many of them!

Rumer Godden is great at houses - China Court in the novel of the same name comes to mind.

When small I was obsessed with Malcolm Saville's Green Dolphin Adventure, and wanted to live there. Some family friends who we often visited helpfully moved to an ex-inn (the Old Angel in Bury St Edmunds) which was full of little up and down stairs, wonky floors, etc - exactly right, though I never did find the secret smugglers' passage.

Trennels, so long as the heating and hot water were modernised, definitely, ditto the Cazelets' house. And a non-fictional one, but which is part of fiction: Asthall Manor, the middle one of the Mitfords' childhood Big Houses.

OMG, I was going to say China Court! I love that. Especially with Ripsie's lovely garden.

Also Thackers (which is real, but I would rather live in the one in my mind really) from A Traveller in Time.

Aunt Betsey Trotwood's House.
The Vicarage in Children of the Vicarage.