In Homes of Tennyson, this cottage was described by Arthur Paterson as 'a long, old stone cottage, with a deep thatch and old burns and byres around it, lying at the foot of the kitchen garden, and facing the lane (at its turn here) running through the wilderness property. This drawing was made from the field (in a corner of which stand the ricks) and looks across the lane, down which the children are passing. This last year or two Mrs Diment's growing family of fowls (not to speak of guinea fowls and peacocks) have pecked away most of the grass and hedges near the gate'