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Hill Top is a 17th-century house in Near Sawrey near Hawkshead, in the English county of Cumbria. It is an example of Lakeland vernacular architecture with random stone walls and slate roof. [1] The house was once the home of children's author and illustrator Beatrix Potter who left it to the National Trust. It is a Grade II* listed building.
Near Sawrey contains a pub, while Far Sawrey has the parish church, a hotel and pub. The village shop ceased to function as a post office around 2003 and ceased to be a shop around 2010. There are waymarked paths between the ferry and Beatrix Potter's house, which mostly allows people to avoid walking on the public roads.
In 2017, The Art of Beatrix Potter: Sketches, Paintings, and Illustrations by Emily Zach was published after San Francisco publisher Chronicle Books decided to mark the 150th anniversary of Beatrix Potter's birth by showing that she was "far more than a 19th-century weekend painter. She was an artist of astonishing range."
The stolid-looking house at Hill Top, the grazing cows, and the cat "impart a sense of settled respectability" in the frontispiece. [1]The Potter family summered occasionally at Lakefield, a country house in the village of Sawrey.
Moss Eccles Tarn is a tarn on Claife Heights, near Near Sawrey in the Lake District, Cumbria. It is currently owned by the National Trust and known as an attractive tarn for fishing and walking. It is known for its association with Beatrix Potter – she owned the tarn and donated it to the National Trust after her death, and it served as ...
House at Hill Top. While summering with family in Perthshire in 1893, 27-year-old Beatrix Potter sent a story and picture letter about a disobedient young rabbit to the son of her former governess Annie Carter Moore, and continued to send similar letters to the boy and his siblings over the following years.
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A house, later converted into a museum, it was extended in the 18th century, and again in 1908 for Beatrix Potter. The house is in roughcast stone with a slate roof, and has two storeys, four bays, a rear gabled wing, and a stair wing. On the front the first bay projects forward, it is gabled, and contains a datestone.