Just in time for the release of the last Harry Potter film, the childhood home of author JK Rowlings is for sale in England. Church Cottage, on the Welsh borders, near Chepstow, is on the market for the very reasonable £400,000. 
The house is located in the village of Tutshill, which for those who know their Harry Potter, is the also the name of Tutshill Tornadoes, one of the teams that plays Quidditch. It is also close to both Chepstow Castle and the Chepstow Racecourse, where I spent many happy afternoons, and won piles of dosh!
Church Cottage was built as a school house by the Gothic Revivalist architect, Henry Woodyer, around 1852. The property retains many of its original features.
One of the bedrooms 
features a small inscription of the windowsill “Joanne Rowling slept here circa 1982”, which even after several renovations, remains. 
The cottage is surrounded by gardens with fruit trees, roses, perennial flowers and a lily pond. 
There are three bedrooms, some of which have views over the Severn River estuary. 
Growing up in a house like Church Cottage must have given JK Rowling some of the material for the Harry Potter books, don’t you think?
Wizard!
Now that is a very enchanting house to grow up in.
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Meg a wonderful property and the grounds are so lush! I wonder where she is moving...
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The house has been owned by another family since the Rowlings' owned it. The current owner is a producer with the BBC.
ReplyDeleteso charming -no wonder why she has such a vivid imagination!
ReplyDeleteAh I could be happy there...cold perhaps but happy.
ReplyDeleteNice simple house. I like to visit this home, just to wonder on where JK Rowling mind was molded, and started to write.
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