After much more cutting and a surprising amount of faff trying to assemble and insert the windows (the open one in the top left hand corner was amazingly hard) the building looks like this, I have something slightly different planned for the remaining front window which is proving to be a bit more trouble than I thought.

I am really looking forwards to trying to do the front it shall be an assortment of Warwickshire sandstone, cobbles and a few harder stone slabs which sit in a line immediately below the edge of the overhanging first floor, two small trees in pots will also sit on the front. (I have never modelled cobbles before so any hints would be very gratefully received.

Around the back I have started to think about the garden, The 8 foot wall around the edge has stayed but inside I am moving away from my initial plan and more towards this:

Against the back of the house will be a patio about 3' wide made from slabs, along the wall at the top of the picture will be a raised ornamental pond with roses behind up the wall and a shed which has been converted from the old out door toilet. along the wall at the right of the picture will be either more roses or an apple tree grown as shown below.

A path will run along side the bottom wall, whilst another may run alongside the pond (this one may just be grass instead though.

In the middle will be a large bed of herbs and ornamental plants. a bench will probably sit on the patio at the bottom of this picture.

If anyone has any ideas or comments about this (especially if you know about gardening and can tell me which plants would work best in which locations that would be great.

My idea for the Apple tree

The shed will be converted from this a version of this Privy of Pendon fame ( book Copyright Malcom Smith, if anyone objects please let me know and I will remove it etc.)