Conan Doyle's writing shed

The shed, featured in this painting, is in the garden at Windlesham Manor. The rose garden in  front of the shed is where Conan Doyle was originally buried.  

Conan Doyle moved to Windlesham Manor, Crowborough, East Sussex soon after he married Jean Leckie in 1907. He lived here with Jean and their children – Denis, Malcolm (known as Adrian) and Lena (known as Billie) until his death.

Sir Conan Doyle died at his home in East Sussex on 7th July 1930. He was 71 years old”. He was found clutching his chest in the hall and his last words were directed toward his wife: "You are wonderful."

At the time of his death, there was some controversy concerning his burial place, as he was avowedly not a Christian, considering himself a Spiritualist. He was first buried on 11 July 1930 in Windlesham rose garden but was later reinterred, with his wife, in Minstead churchyard in the New Forest, Hampshire. Carved wooden tablets to his memory and to the memory of his wife, originally from the church at Minstead, are on display as part of the other Sherlock Holmes exhibition at Portsmouth Museum. The epitaph on his gravestone in the churchyard reads, in part: "Steel true/Blade straight/Arthur Conan Doyle/Knight/Patriot, Physician, and man of letters".