DANEMEAD - a Cottage Living lot

I grew up watching BBC adaptations of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and Poirot, and both hold a very special place in my heart. When Cottage Living was announced and I started seeing early footage I realised Finchwick was basically St Mary Mead, which is where Miss Marple lives.

A project was born!

The best Miss Marple is objectively (don't fight me) Joan Hickson. She lived in a cottage called Danemead, the exterior of which was filmed using Dane Cottage in Nether Wallop (yes, that's a real place) in Hampshire. There are a few photos online of what it looks like, and I've tried to recreate the general feel of the place here.

The real place looks like it has a smaller cottage attached to it as part of the same building on the right, and on the left, in a separate building that seems to be linked by a covered passage, is an old village shop. I've included both here. Both have very cramped living quarters, but I have sims living in them and they have all the basics they require. The village shop is fully stocked, and has a chicken coop out back for fresh eggs.

The main cottage is a large, homely space befitting the world's best old lady detective. Coming in the small entry way, to the left is a large sitting room with impressive fireplace and large hearth. To the back is an area with a desk for your own budding detective to do her research and start solving those mysteries. To the front is a piano, and knitting and cross-stitch supplies. A cosy seating area fills the central sitting room space, where Miss Marple enjoys entertaining the local vicar, and interrogating the more suspicious of St Mary Mead's inhabitants, entirely without their knowledge.

Off to the right of the entrance way is a small but cosy dining room, and through an archway is the comfortable kitchen, which leads out to a well-appointed back garden, complete with small vegetable patch, as well as manicured borders and a table with chairs, behind which are Miss Marple's beloved rose bushes.

Here is an album of images to see how it looks.

INSTALLATION:

• Place the loose Tray files in your Tray folder
• Download any required cc and place it in your Mods folder
• Tick 'Include Custom Content' in the Gallery
• Search for Danemead or my EA ID - pictureamoebae

TOU, requirements, and credits: Share and use as you wish, but please do so freely and always allowing others to do the same with your resulting content. 

Requires the following packs:

Requires the following cc:

• ravasheen: Feel the Burn Fireplace Inserts 
• illogicalsims: Upright Piano 
• plasticbox: Less Gigantic Fashionista Closet (This was broken by the patch that changed the window/door cutout information. You can batch fix it yourself in Sims 4 Studio, or, there is in the comments section an updated version by someone you can grab instead.)
• I also used one of LittleMsSam's Tiny Living Lot Traits in this lot - it's up to you obviously if you want to use it or not. If you don't have it installed it may show a 'missing' notice when you load the lot, but everything else will be fine.