J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan House Up for Sale
The house where JM Barrie created Peter Pan which is now on the market
Lobswood Manor, the house in which J.M. Barrie first began his story of Peter Pan, is on the market for £1.25m.
Formerly known as Black Lake Cottage, the five bedroom house in the Surrey Hills in the south of England marketed by estate agents Savills was where he regularly entertained the children of his friends and neighbours the Llewelyn-Davies family. The results of those adventures were chronicled by Barrie in a 1901 photo book called The Boy Castaways of Black Lake Island, the only surviving copy of which is held by the Beinecke Collection at Yale. The property is also where he began inventing stories about Peter Pan to entertain the children and is marked as such with a Blue Plaque.
Other literary properties currently on the market in the UK include:
- the Edgcote Estate in Northamptonshire (with an asking price £45m), including the Grade I-listed Georgian country house which stood in for Mr Bingley’s Netherfield in the 1995 television series of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, previous owners including Henry VIII’s chief adviser Thomas Cromwell and the same king’s wife Anne of Cleves who was given it in the divorce
- the six bedroom Skelgill Farmhouse in Newlands Valley, Keswick, in the Lake District which Beatrix Potter liked so much that she used it as the inspiration for the Little Town Farm in The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle (offers over £975,000)
- J.R.R. Tolkien’s former home with a hexagonal tower turret in Leeds in the north of England where he worked as a professor of English for the university for five years in the 1920s and where he produced his iconic version of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight during this time (£500,000, including the Blue Plaque confirming Tolkien’s ownership)
