Clouds Hill is an isolated early 19th-century cottage near Wareham in the county of Dorset in South West England.

For heat insulation Lawrence had the eating room lined with asbestos that was covered in aluminium foil, and he kept his food under bell jars; a ship’s porthole, from the broken-up HMS Tiger, was installed in 1935.

[2] In a 1934 letter to Francis Rodd, Lawrence (who had changed his surname to Shaw) described his home thus:[5] "The cottage has two rooms, one, upstairs, for music (a gramophone and records) and one downstairs for books.

The cottage looks simple outside, and does no hurt to its setting which is twenty miles of broken heath and a river valley filled with rhododendrons run wild.

I think everything, inside and outside my place, approaches perfection... Yours ever, T. E. Shaw"In 1935 Lawrence left the Royal Air Force and lived at Clouds Hill.

A few weeks later, at the age of 46, he suffered injuries in a motorcycle accident close to the cottage, and died in the Bovington Camp hospital on 19 May 1935.

According to Jeremy Wilson, Lawrence's biographer, tuum's occupants included George Bernard Shaw, E. M. Forster and Robert Graves.