Driving through a pretty Cotswold village I spotted this beautiful little thatched cottage on the roadside. I had to stop and take a picture which I hope you enjoy. I noted that it was called "Asphodel Cottage" and decided to do some research when I got home.
The cottage is in the village of Tarlton and was built in 1625 for a local gardener, he was tall and the ceilings are quite high to the normal tiny cottage of the time. I learnt these facts as it's now a holiday home and I found the advertising details on the net.
This romantic thatched cottage is named after a pretty plant of the lily family, long beloved of writers and poets and symbolic of longing and desire. Oscar Wilde for example ‘buried his romance in a bed of asphodel’, whilst Virginia Woolf’s tragic Orlando owned a soul struck by ‘a germ bred’ of its pollen.
My only complaint of the cottage is the modern plumbing on the outside, but I supposed we should allow the visitors the comfort of a toilet to use, or it might drive them potty.
View with the dark background, it's well worth it.
Now re name your place Heather's Hoose
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