The English Storybook Cottage... Fairy Tale Fantasies!
The English storybook cottage designs featured here are what dreams are made of . . . . . . .
Cozy and romantic, these magical gems will have you wishing your fairy godmother would wave her wand
and make one your own!
When designing and building romantic little jewels such as those pictured here, the English do it better than
anyone. Having created these quaint and cozy dwellings for hundreds of years, they have mastered the tech- nique
to the point where it is now a veritable art form!
oversize chimneys and colorful cottage gardens offer an intoxicating visual feast that is difficult to resist!
Visions of sugarplum fairies dance in our minds.
Pictured at right is Wepham Cottage, located in the village of Burpham. Made of rubble stone and brick, with
stucco and
half-timbering
at the ga- ble peak, it exudes Old World charm.
The picturesque cottage that fol- lows is in the village of Welford-on- Avon. It is constructed of stucco and
half-timbering with brick chim- ney stacks and a thatched roof.
The three English storybook cottage designs pictured at right and below are made of stucco, which has been
tinted to get the lovely colors in the two images below.
In addition, each of the cottages has a picturesque thatched roof.
The cottages pictured here are craft- ed from brick. At right is a charming garden cottage.
The highly detailed cottage pictured below combines brick with half-tim- bering. Note the beautiful herring- bone
pattern in the
brickwork.
The charming little cottage pictured at right is crafted from stone. A large chimney rises from the front-facing
gable end.
Pictured below is a highly decorative Victorian-era cottage. The lovely stone exterior features contrasting corner
quoins. Surrounding the dia- mond-paned casement windows are contrasting bands of red bricks and light colored,
smoothly finished stone. Decorative bargeboards adorn the ga- ble ends. And crowning the roof of this striking cottage
is an equally striking ornamental chimney crafted of stone with recessed brick panels and clay chimney pots.
The enchanting English storybook cottage designs pictured here are also made of stone. The cottage at right features a finely crafted thatched roof.
The beautiful ivy-draped cottage pictured below is set in a romantic cottage garden. It features a love- ly
tiled roof.
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