Lovegood House

Black, cylindrical and standing alone on a hilltop with a stream at its foot, the Lovegood house looks from a distance like a giant chess rook. It sits near the village of Ottery St Catchpole, and it is home to Xenophilius Lovegood and his daughter Luna. The garden is planted with things nobody else grows: a Snargaluff, what may be gurdyroots, and a bush hung with orange radish-like fruit called Dirigible plums. Two old crab apple trees stand either side of the front door, bearing berry-sized fruit and white-headed mistletoe. The door opens straight into the kitchen, a perfectly circular room where stove, sinks and cupboards are all curved to fit the wall and every one of them painted in bright primary colours with flowers, insects and birds. A spiral wrought-iron staircase rises from the middle of the floor to the rooms above.