A second building on the property has a wood-burning stove and unfinished interiors that could be converted to a guest cottage, office, workshop or garage.
Built in an Arts and Crafts style and surrounded by a scattering of wooden cottages, stables, workshops and artist's studios, it has chickens scratching in the rose garden, and a couple of goats tethered a safe distance away.
The BBC's LJ Rich caught up with Paul Spooner at his cottage-cum-workshop in deepest Cornwall, to learn about his methods, and his motivations.
The facilities were improved, and by the end of 1915, according to Wackett, they boasted "a good engineering workshop", "cottages for the married staff" and "a very comfortable officers mess".
Lyndie still lives in the cottage and owns the workshop, which she leases to the theatre.
Mistley's pastel cottages and craft workshops unfurl their delights far more readily than my final destination, Jaywick.
Croftside Guest Accommodation, Therapy and Workshop Studio Croftside Cottage, Main Road, Birdham, Chichester, West Sussex PO20 7HS, 01243 512864 croftside.com £70, single £35 The three-bedroom Croftside is close to Chichester harbour and is run by Geof and Sue Muffett.
Mr. Kelm's Garage Annex School for Book Arts (1 Cottage Street; 413-527-8044; www.garageannexschool.com) holds bookbinding workshops on weekends, open by advance request.
On my weekend there were 10 of us, crammed elbow to elbow, around a long table in a 1902 stone blacksmith's cottage that not only served as our workshop, but functions as a gift store, too.
If his workshop in Nuremberg functioned as a cottage industry, with Dürer regarded as a prosperous artisan, his two long voyages to Italy gave him a taste for a world where artists were treated with respect.
