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Not suitable for wheelchairs, pushchairs or backpacks; guide dogs admitted.
A small, mainly 17th century farmhouse bought by Beatrix Potter as part investment, part holiday home, and it features in several of her stories. The 19th century dresser figures in the Tale of Samuel Whiskers and the grandfather clock was the model for the one in The Tailor of Gloucester.
Beatrix Potter left virtually all her property of some 4,000 acres of land in the Lake District, with numerous cottages and farms to the National Trust and she stipulated that the rooms and furnishings here should be kept in their present condition and even left a list of where each item should stand.
The house is a typical Lakeland stone walled and slated roofed farmhouse, with flag stones, wooden panelling 18th century staircase and two great fireplaces dating from the 17th and 18th centuries.
A typical early 20th century cottage garden covering nearly an acre is an informal and tightly packed miscellany of flowers, fruit and vegetables. The garden is illustrated in several of Beatrix Potter's book including The Tale of Jemima Puddle Duck and the Tale of Tom Kitten. With the help of these illustrations and by careful study
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