This Is the House That Jack Built was printed in numerous collections in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Randolph Caldecott produced an illustrated version in 1878. Cherrington Manor, a handsome timber-framed house in North East Shropshire, England, is reputed to be the actual house that Jack built. There is a former malt house in the grounds. Each sentence in the story is an example of an increasingly deeply nested relative clause. The last version, "This is the horse...", would be quite difficult to untangle if the previous ones were not present. See the Noun Phrase for more details about postmodification of the noun phrase in
The House That Berry Built changed attitudes and customs of post-war France. He moved permanently to Umtali, Southern Rhodesia, (now Mutare, Zimbabwe), where he built a small and economic colonial- style bungalow called "Sacradown", also on a hillside location. He did not use a house name on his writing paper as he did with Cockade, preferring the simple address of Oak Avenue, Umtali, Southern Rhodesia. (IKD) While not representing a crucial stage in the author's work, "The House That Berry Built", through its abundance of anecdotal details, brings a personal perspective to the relationship the English maintained with France during the inter-war period. Notable are