Built in 1902 and home to George Bernard Shaw for more than 40 years, Shaw`s Corner is an Arts & Crafts house which is much as he left it. The clothes in Shaw`s wardrobe, the typewriter, glasses and dictionary in his study and the collection of hats in the hall. as well as the 1938 Oscar for Pygmalion, give you the sense Shaw has just left the room. Hidden away in the garden is the hut in which Shaw wrote his best known works. The hut revolved to catch the sun, and the elctric heater and telephone meant that Shaw could work in all weathers. Surrounding it the orchard, flower meadow, rose dell and densly planted herbaceous beds create a vigorous, quintessentially English garden, richly stocked with pre-1950`s plants.

 

 

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