When they bought the cottage, they didn't know what it represented.
Jon Bromley, 58, and his wife Cressida, 52, spotted this tiny house, located in Surrey, in a property magazine in 2019. They then acquired it and moved into it.
Before noticing passers-by taking photos in front of their quaint micro-fence, marked with the
Honeysuckle cottage
sign .
The house, called "honeysuckle", is none other than the one that appears in the famous Christmas romantic comedy
The Holiday
(2006), directed by Nancy Meyers.
In the film, she is the subject of a “home exchange”: the character of Kate Winslet, who lives there, gives her up for a few days to the one played by Cameron Diaz, who lives in a villa in Los Angeles.
17 years later, Jon and Cressida have decided to put the cottage up for rent on Airbnb, for 295 pounds (333 euros) a night.
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"The cutest, smallest, most English of cottages"
However, the chalet owned by the duo is not exactly the one we see in the film.
For
The Holiday
, the producer was indeed looking for "the cutest, smallest, most English cottage you could find", he revealed in the DVD bonus features.
Bingo: it was in the village of Holmbury St Mary, in Surrey, that the film crew found their happiness.
Except that the small house was too far from London (67 km), home of the production, and was therefore recreated, brick by brick, in a studio in the British capital.
This rustic house - that of Jon and Cressida, therefore - which has become iconic, has three bedrooms and offers a view of the surrounding Surrey hills, which can be admired from a flagstone terrace.
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A village far from everything...or almost
In
The Holiday
, Amanda Woods, played by Cameron Diaz, has just broken up with her boyfriend.
A hard worker, she wants to take the great outdoors as the holidays approach, far from everything - above all, far from men.
So she decides, on a whim, to leave Los Angeles to land in an English village.
Although Iris, the cottage owner played by Kate Winslet, assured her that there were no men around, she won't be alone for long.
Very quickly, Graham, the brother of Iris played by Jude Law, rings at her door... And they fall in love.
Enough to make you want to make a winter getaway there, and curl up under a plaid in the corner of one of the chalet's fireplaces.
But you will have to wait until fine weather to rent this cottage, a victim of its own success.
Most of the dates offered in January and February are, in fact, already booked.
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