Jane's views on Cottages was, and I am quoting her.

“I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me and be happy. I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage.”

This was taken from her novel Sense and Sensibility.  I am responsible for this drawing of Jane Austen.