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Anne Hathaway's Cottage

Anne Hathaway's Cottage is a twelve-roomed former farmhouse in Shottery, just west of Stratford-upon-Avon, where Anne Hathaway — the wife of William Shakespeare — lived as a child. The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust has owned and operated the property as a museum since 1892, and the site is set within a designed flower garden and orchard open to visitors.

Photograph via Wikimedia Commons

Its prime

1624

Today

Restored

As it stood in 1624

What Anne Hathaway's Cottage looked like in its prime.

Long, low timber-framed farmhouse with white infill panels and visible dark oak beams, capped by a broad, thick thatched roof with a patterned ridge. Multiple tall red-brick chimneys puncture the roofline. Small leaded casement windows are set into the walls beneath deep eaves. The house sits immediately behind a formal cottage garden of mixed flowerbeds, edged stone paths and clipped shrubs, with orchard trees rising behind the building.

Step inside

8 places to explore in 1624.

The record describes 8 distinct spots at Anne Hathaway's Cottageincluding 3 interiors: ground-floor kitchen with large cooking chimney, ground-floor timber-framed room, upper chamber in the 17th-century range. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more of the immersive experience.

Approach along the garden pathMiss Willmott's flower beds (front garden)Cottage entrance and doorwayThatched roof and chimneys (side elevation)Ground-floor kitchen with large cooking chimneyGround-floor timber-framed roomUpper chamber in the 17th-century rangeOrchard behind the cottage

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