Sentence examples for modest cottage from inspiring English sources

These days, a modest cottage in the middle of the island starts at $1.5 million.

From the grandest palazzo to the most modest cottage, visual tricks abound.

The modest cottage and garden seemed enchanted, like a town in a children's story when the inhabitants have disappeared.

Every day, another modest cottage gets bulldozed, and what goes up in its place is Tara on a quarter-acre lot.

He moved to the Hertfordshire village of Much Hadham and stayed on, gradually expanding his modest cottage and garden into a 70-acre holding.

Indeed, I was surprised to discover that she is now happily installed in a modest cottage in the Cotswolds with her boyfriend and teenage daughter.

But on Fourth Avenue, what was once an amiable jumble of mostly modest cottages still looks like a patchwork of disaster.

"If you look at the traditional dwellings in Truro, it has always had relatively modest cottages and Capes," she said.

The trend for new buyers at Bantam Lake is to tear down the modest cottages and build a bigger house.

In recent years some of the smaller homes have been replaced by larger ones, but most are still modest cottages.

A tropical hilltop Xanadu, the grounds contain a labyrinth of paths, layered in vegetation, with modest cottages tucked into the landscape.