Cottages of Past and Present

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Mountain Cottage

A cottage is a most wonderful place to admire and view. It brings us to a place of comfort and longing. Although there is usually always hard work associated with them, they bring a lot of good and pleasant memories. This gallery full of 10 cottages are from all walks of life and different places as well. They are all different but yet so much alike in the fact that each cottage housed hard working individuals!

Scroll through our cottage gallery below and leave us your thoughts and comments! We appreciate you stopping by Back Roads Living and viewing these terrific cottages of past and present.

~Blessings~

Willy Lott's Cottage as painted in The Hay Wain

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Willy Lott's Cottage is a 16th-century cottage in Flatford, East Bergholt, Suffolk, England that features in John Constable's painting, The Hay Wain. The property is Grade I listed and located in the heart of Dedham Vale, a typically English rural landscape. The Cottage was restored in the 1920s after a revival of interest in John Constable's paintings. It has been renamed Willy Lott's House because this is the name Constable used in his paintings. It is owned by The National Trust. The cottage is located just downstream from Flatford Mill which, along with neighbouring Valley Farm and Bridge Cottage, are leased to the Field Studies Council, which uses them as locations for arts-based courses such as painting and as accommodation for sciences-based courses such as residential ecology trips for schools at A-level.Children from younger age groups also go there and stay as residents for a few days. https://www.flickr.com/photos/karen_roe/