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Shaw's Corner was the primary residence of the renowned Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw; it is now a National Trust property open to the public as a writer's house museum. Inside the house, the rooms remain much as Shaw left them, and the garden and Shaw's writing hut can also be visited.
- Smee, Mence & Houchin
- Arts and Crafts movement
- Early 20th century
Find out when Shaw's Corner is open, how to get here, things to see and do and more. Discover Shaw’s Corner, the home of George Bernard Shaw. Explore the beautiful Arts and Crafts interiors and find fascinating links with the past.
Discover Shaw’s Corner, the home of playwright, George Bernard Shaw. Explore the beautiful Arts and Crafts interiors and find fascinating links with the past. Visiting the garden at Shaw's Corner. The garden at Shaw’s Corner extends to 3.5 acres and is in a conservation area.
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Shaw's Corner was the primary residence of the renowned Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw; it is now a National Trust property open to the public as a writer's house museum. Inside the house, the rooms remain much as Shaw left them, and the garden and Shaw's writing hut can also be visited.
Shaw's Corner. Built as the new rectory for the village during 1902, this Edwardian villa was the home of George Bernard Shaw from 1906 until 1950. Shaw chose to live here after seeing a tombstone in the churchyard that read ‘Mary Anne South. Born 1825. Died 1895.’
Home to world-famous and highly influential playwright George Bernard Shaw for 44 years from 1906 to 1950, Shaw's Corner's collection is as varied and interesting as the man who once lived here. See the artefacts that Bernard Shaw, and his wife Charlotte, held dear – both everyday items and literary mementos.
Shaw’s Corner was the Arts and Crafts home for 44 years to the playwright, polemicist, and gadfly, George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950). He lived there with his wife Charlotte Payne-Townshend, whom he married in 1898, and wrote many of his major works in a secluded, revolving hut at the bottom of the garden that followed the arc of the sun’s ...
