Sentence examples for derelict cottage from inspiring English sources

One is a graphite drawing of a derelict cottage by Jacob van Ruisdael.

I was offered rooms in people's basements, converted garages, a derelict cottage for $950 a month.

An isolated, derelict cottage, perched on a ledge of Welsh mountainside might not strike everyone as the ideal holiday retreat.

They put down roots in south Manchester, where he single-handedly restored a derelict cottage as the family home.

Across from the bakery is the four-room Creole cottage called Whitehouse whose facade and front yard have been painted a pristine white by Benjamin Berniard, a lapsed landscape architect who tends the garden between Kaechele's bakery and a ruin aptly named Derelict Cottage, bought as is for $20,000.

Alex and Tracey met in the wine trade and then fell for a pair of derelict cottages.

Derelict cottages and fixer-uppers also performed well, as credit availability meant that buyers had more disposable income with which to renovate properties.

In "The Enigma of Arrival," the long book that Naipaul wrote about the Wiltshire countryside in which he has lived, intermittently, since 1971, there is a searing parenthesis in which he tells us about two derelict cottages he has been converting into a new home.

In Ireland, known for an affinity for words and dark humor, the sides of many derelict cottages and dreary parking lot alleys now display Mr. Powers's spray-painted images and ironic phrases, which he says describe a kind of love story.

Honey Man has been displaced from his Caribbean birthplace to a semi-derelict cottage on the edge of an English country estate, where he potters around unobserved, creating homeopathic remedies from different strains of honey.

Having fallen derelict, the cottage opened in April after a year-long restoration by the Landmark Trust who saw the potential in such a historic building in a magnificently isolated location.