Every High Street begins at a corner!
Choose the perfect start to your personal street from our range of corner buildings. When you have made your selection, visit our online shop to place your order.
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Chandlery by the river – Launched 26th April 2011
This corner building is located in
The Chandlery Window
Upton upon Severn, a small town with an extremely pretty high street! Over it’s long history, this building has housed a number of different businesses, but here we present it as a chandlery. Upton upon Severn has a busy marina, and tourists visiting the area often choose to enjoy a boat trip along the river!
Here we see the shop windows filled with canoes, kayaks, lifejackets, and all the things you would need for a boating break. Upton is also home to more than one annual international festival, and as the sign beside the first floor window shows, this little shop also sells festival tickets!
The Chandlery by the river is a Limted Painting of 200 ceramics.
It measures 20cm (just under 8?) tall to the top of the chimney x 10.5cm (4?) wide at the widest point.
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Our ‘Cook’s Corner’ is located in Sidmouth, Devon. It is a stylish corner building that has remained in the same ownership, Gliddon & Son, Ironmongers, since it was built in 1887.
All a chef could want!
with the shop windows filled with everything a chef could want, from aprons and cook’s knives to pans & utensils. There are celebrity chef demonstrations advertised here too!
Take a closer look at the upstairs of the building. After closing the shop, the owners of Chef’s Paradise are running their own little bistro upstairs! The menu and glasses stand ready on the tables, and very soon the diners will arrive!
First produced in 2002, The Kitchen Shop measures 21.9cm (8 & 3/4″) tall to top of chimney x 11.2cm (4 & 1/2″) wide at widest point.
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Situated on a corner in the historic town of Bury St Edmonds, Suffolk, The Nutshell is recognised at England’s smallest pub, according to the Guinness Bookof Records.
On display inside are suitable curiosities, such as the smallest ‘Times’ newspaper, and the smallest dart board.
Notice the black cat in the top left window. Inside the pub is suspended a mummified black cat, discovered during building work. Builders used to brick cats up behind chimney hearths, which was thought to bring good luck into the building – not so good for the cat obviously! If you visit, ask the landlord for a “Baloga Taxi” – he will be very surprised.
First produced by Hazle Ceramics in 2008, The Nutshell measures 19cm(7 &1/2″) tall to top of chimney x 9.5cm (3 & 3/4″) wide at the widest point, and is available in a choice of 2 colourways, mustard or blue. Choose your colourway in the shop section
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Alf Roberts’ Corner Shop & Post Office
Situated at 2 North Parade, Broad Street, Grantham, Lincolnshire.
This general grocer was owned and run not by the Alf Roberts of ‘Coronation Street’ fame, but the father of Margaret
Thatcher, (now the Rt. Hon. Baroness Thatcher) first and so far, only female Prime Minister of the UK, who was born in the flat above her father’s shop.
Alf Roberts, Alderman and Mayor of Grantham ran his shop for over 30 years from the 1920s to the 1950s. He and his wife Beatrice had two daughters, Maragaret was the younger. The building itself was built in the late 18th Century and the actual model produced is based on a photo of it around 1912. We show it as it would have looked during the 1950’s, with it’s beautifully detailed shop window stocked with products whose names alone take us straight back to childhood!
The Corner Grocer is a limited edition of just 1000 pieces.
First produced in 2004, it measures 20.7cm (8& 1/4″) tall to top of chimney x 11.2cm(4&1/2″)wide at widest point.
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The Corner Bank
Great Rates!
Located in Chester, our Bank on the corner was built in 1856 as Williams & Glynn Bank. This attractive stone and timber building was designed to blend in with it’s neighbours, some of Chester’s famous black & white buildings! 150 years on, this building is now a popular bar!
Take a closer look at the window – It’s amazing that there isn’t a line of customers queueing to move their accounts here, when you can take a loan out at 0%, or get a 10% return on your savings!
First produced in 2001. The bank on the corner measures 21.6cm(8 & 1/2″) tall to top of chimney x10.1cm (4″) wide at widest point.
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The Turret Pub
This corner piece is based on the Cornucopia Public House, Located at Marine Parade, Southend on Sea Essex.
Built in 1890, the Cornucopia was once home to a museum owned and ran by Mr. Ambrose Twigg, which featured such curiosities as a pig with nine legs and a chicken with four!
These days this little Victorian pub, which is directly on the sea front, is surrounded by bright & glittery amusement arcades!
First produced several years ago, The Turret Pub is due to be retired from the collection later this year, so if you have not yet added it to your collection, this could be your last chance to do so.
The Turret pub measures 23.5cm (9 & 1/4″ ) tall to top of roof, x 8.2cm (3 & 1/4″) wide at widest point.
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The Garden Shop
Our Garden Shop is based on a long established ironmongers in Uppingham, Rutland.
This business still survives today, and provides an interesting alternative to the DIY superstore garden centres.
Based on D. Norton & Son Ironmongers in the Market Place, Uppingham. Home of a respected public school, it’s a very attractive small town and well worth a visit – antiques, cream teas, second hand books, outdoor pursuits gear … all made available in delightful unspoilt independent shops.
It is 17 years since we produced our first Ironmonger/Hardware Shop (sold out) when we lamented the disappearance of such wonderful shops all over the country. Any you might come across now have done incredibly well to have survived the rise of the DIY superstore. ‘Norton’s’ reminds us that they harp back to supplying farmers with their ploughs on display above the door. The proprietor is (fictitiously) A. Titchmarsh
The Garden Shop measures 21cm (8 & 1/4″) tall to top of chimneyx 10.2cm(4″) wide at widest point.
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King’s English
Located at 28 Palace Street, Canterbury, Kent.
This building is one of the best known in Canterbury – known as the King’s School shop. It was probably built by a cloth merchant called Avery Sabine, whose initials are also on the apex of the gable. This part of the city was home to many in the cloth and weaving trade.
In more recent years, the building came close to falling down due to the removal of crucially important chimney stack – happily now restored but with hardly a right angle in sight, this little shop is well worth a visit! One of the external wood carvings could be the earliest depictions of a native North American.
First Produced in 2009 The King’s English measures 20cm (7 & 15/16″)tall to top of chimney x 11.9cm(4 & 1/2″) wide at widest point.
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Our ceramics are hand painted with care, individual artisits work can vary, and a photo of one ceramic will not depict exactly every ceramic painted. Our ceramics are hand made and individually finished. This means the measurements can very slightly from one to another, but only by a milimetre or two.