Gifts The House Bauble

The House Bauble

Illustration of the two sides of the printed insert for Audley Cottage, 35 Broadway, Grantchester, a listed house in our sample village: side one reads Est. 17th century, Audley Cottage, remodelled in the mid nineteenth century, Christmas 2026; side two is a circle of the 1886 Ordnance Survey map of Grantchester

Illustration of the printed insert, for a listed house in our sample village

A shatterproof Christmas bauble for your house: its name and the date it was built on one side, and the old Ordnance Survey map around it on the other.

An illustration of the two sides of the printed insert, typeset by us for Audley Cottage, 35 Broadway, Grantchester, a listed house in our sample village (Historic England list entry 1127784: seventeenth-century origins, much remodelled in the mid nineteenth century). The bauble itself is not shown. Map: Ordnance Survey six-inch, Cambridgeshire sheet XLVII.SW, published 1886, reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.

What's included

Side one: your house name or address, and when it was built, from the records (shown as "c." for "about" unless the date is documented)
Side two: your house on the old Ordnance Survey six-inch map, usually from the 1880s or 1890s, cut to a circle
An optional line of your own, such as "Our first Christmas here, 2026"
A shatterproof clear plastic bauble, 79 × 84 mm
An emailed proof of both sides before printing
UK delivery

Formats and Christmas dates

Shatterproof clear bauble with a double-sided printed insert (79 × 84 mm), posted: £19, order by Thursday 10 December for Christmas

If the records cannot date your house, we tell you before printing and offer the date of the street or village instead, or a full refund.

Christmas: Order by 10 December for delivery before Christmas. We research the date and send a proof within 2 working days.

Real records, honestly used. We build each item from archives and published sources, and say so where the record is incomplete. We email a proof before printing. We never research living private individuals.

Historic maps: Ordnance Survey six-inch series, reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.