As diverse as the rosy-cheeked Hobbits themselves, every smial, as Hobbit-holes are known, reflects the unique personality of its inhabitant and nestles into the hillside amid a sea of lush greenery.

Just where you enter Hobbiton from the south, the road bends and enters a cutting through the grassy hills surrounding the village.

It's known locally as Gandalf's Cutting after the Grey Wizard who often enters from that direction. Just there, on the left is a smial with a blue door adorned with a beautiful leadlight porthole and a small halfmoon window, often dressed with drapes to match.

Observant moviegoers may have seen Everard Proudfoot sweeping its doorstep...