On Film | Rosehill Cottage: A Look Inside the Cottage from the Film, The Holiday
Monday 2nd November, 2020
by Roséline
RECENTLY ON INSTAGRAM, we posted an English countryside cottage (above) that captured the imaginations of thousands. Many of you asked if it was the cottage from the 2006 Nancy Meyers film, The Holiday. It is not (although there are similarities), as Rosehill Cottage from The Holiday sadly doesn't exist, its exterior built from scratch in an empty field on a hillside overlooking the town of Shere.
Before the building of Rosehill Cottage, the Production Designer for the film, Jon Hutman, explained, “We were looking for the cutest, smallest, most English cottage that we could find, and we found one, actually, that belonged to the National Trust.” Unfortunately, it was isolated and over four hours from London, where the cast and crew was based, making it much more expensive to film. And so, Rosehill Cottage as we remember it from the film was created, and as it was only an exterior shell, it was torn down after filming finished.
Sources and Credits: House & Garden UK; Hooked on Houses; Locations Hub; Outnow; Living Props Ltd.; Shere Delight; Snow Business; The Kittchen; My Little Country Life and Beautiful England Photos
The Exterior
Above, the wonderfully charming exterior of the fictional Rosehill Cottage, where Iris Simpkins (played by Kate Winslet) lived. This fictional cottage is set in a town that is a forty-minute commute to London, where Winslet's character works as a wedding columnist for The Daily Telegraph. Scenes of the town where Rosehill is supposed to be located are actually filmed in two locations, Shere and Godalming. (More on these villages below.)

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