The Bricks and Mortar Buildings Behind Fictional Houses

Howards End, Manderley, Brideshead – some fictional houses are as unforgettable as the characters who inhabit them. British literature is filled with thinking, writing, and imagining houses in ways that betray a particular consciousness of house and home.

Menabilly: Daphne du Maurier coveted the house for decades
before she moved in and restored it

Lawn Road flats, London, where Agatha Christie lived with her second husband.
Photograph: Alamy

Sounds of the suburbs … Julian Barnes' ‘Metroland is about defeat”.
Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

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