Scotswood

Scotswood is a property on the Devenish Road in Sunningdale, Berkshire. A large rambling Victorian house, it had, by the 1920s, been divided into four apartments. After living at Addison Mansions in London since 1919, Agatha Christie and her husband Archie wanted a cottage in the country. The properties around Sunningdale were all very expensive but they found that the two upstairs apartments of Scotswood were available. The rented the cheaper of the two and moved in. While there, Archie was elected as a member of the nearby Sunningdale Golf Club and became an enthusiastic golfer.

After a few years, Agatha and Archie began to look for other options. In her autobiography, Christie noted that while they were comfortable enough at Scotswood, "The Management was not particularly reliable. The wiring of the electricity gave us trouble; the advertised constant hot water was neither constant nor hot; and the place suffered from a general lack of maintenance." Agatha Christie, who admitted that looking at houses was one of her pastimes, looked around and they found another house nearby which bought over and moved into. They named this place "Styles House" after the country house in her first novel.

Scotswood is still a multi-apartment building and units of it occasionally come onto the market.