It is a little plaything-house that I got out of Mrs Chevenix's shop, and it is the prettiest bauble you ever saw. It is set in enamelled meadows with filigree hedges†barges as solemn as Barons of the Exchequer move under my window† Thank God! theThames is between me and the Duchess of Queensberry.

-Walpole, Horace, 4th Earl of Orford
  Of Strawberry Hill, the first'Gothic'cottage, a showplace in its day. Letter to Henry Seymour Conway, 8 Jun. InW S Lewis (ed) Selected Letters of HoraceWalpole (1973). Mrs Chevenix kept a well-known toy-shop.