A Grade II* listed building, the cottage was reputedly the childhood home of the actor Sarah Siddons.

The village of Lydbrook stands in the Wye Valley, on the edge of the Forest of Dean.

[2] In the 19th century, the tradition developed that Sarah was bought up in the cottage at Lydbrook, where Roger Kemble was known to have owned property.

[3] Siddons went on to become "the country's finest tragic actress", dying in London in 1831.

Alan Brooks, in the revised 2002 Gloucestershire volume of Pevsner's Buildings of England series, describes it as a "good timber-framed house".