Lingholm and its beautiful woodland grounds inspired some of the best loved children's books of all time
An original illustration from The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter. Photograph: Frederick Warne & Co/AP
The Lake District holiday home where Beatrix Potter sketched her pet rabbit Peter asleep on the hearthrug and red squirrels scampering in the surrounding woods, and a hedgehog snuffling through the undergrowth will on Thursday be given Grade II status by the government.
The listing of the property next to Derwentwater is partly to recognise the nationally important creation of the architect Alfred Waterhouse, but mainly to commemorate it as the inspiration for some of the best-loved children's books of all time.
Potter's wealthy family left London and rented Lingholm, a mansion surrounded by beautiful gardens and woods stretching down to the water's edge, for nine summer holidays between 1885 and 1907.
The house has never been open to the public, but its surroundings will be familiar to millions. Squirrel Nutkin, who "lived in a wood at the edge of a lake", sails across Derwentwater to St Herbert's Island ("Owl Island"), where he torments the deceptively sleepy owl, Old Brown, and loses his tail; the laundress hedgehog Mrs Tiggy-Winkle pegs out the robins' red waistcoats on the slope of a nearby hill; and Peter Rabbit's family lives in "the neatest sandiest hole" in the woods.
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The listing of the property next to Derwentwater is partly to recognise the nationally important creation of the architect Alfred Waterhouse, but mainly to commemorate it as the inspiration for some of the best-loved children's books of all time.
Potter's wealthy family left London and rented Lingholm, a mansion surrounded by beautiful gardens and woods stretching down to the water's edge, for nine summer holidays between 1885 and 1907.
The house has never been open to the public, but its surroundings will be familiar to millions. Squirrel Nutkin, who "lived in a wood at the edge of a lake", sails across Derwentwater to St Herbert's Island ("Owl Island"), where he torments the deceptively sleepy owl, Old Brown, and loses his tail; the laundress hedgehog Mrs Tiggy-Winkle pegs out the robins' red waistcoats on the slope of a nearby hill; and Peter Rabbit's family lives in "the neatest sandiest hole" in the woods.
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