The Cottage in Interwar EnglandWords by George Entwistle The 20 years between First and Second World Wars were a time of dramatic development for English people and their homes. By the end of the 1930s, one family in three was living in an interwar house. But one thing that did not change was the sentimental affection of the English for the idea of the cottage picturesque a problematic continuity, with class and cultural dimensions, that inflected English domestic architecture long