In the novel By the Pricking of My Thumbs, the Canal House is a house a couple of miles from Sutton Chancellor. It was originally owned by the Bradleys and at various times by one Miss Margrave and a farmer named Blodgick. The house has been divided into two parts. A grander front part, towards the canal, and a simpler back part. When Emma Boscowan first saw the house a man and a girl rented the front part. The couple weren't married and only visited the house on weekends. The girl was a dancer, or perhaps an actress. The vicar of Sutton Chancellor believed she was named Miss Margrave.
On a train journy several years before, while on her way to her god daughter's daughter's school, Tuppence passed the house. She wished that she could have gone there. By the time Tuppence Beresford actually came to the house the front part was abandoned. Amos and Alice Perry lived in the back part of the house.
The house has also been called Canal Side, Bridge House, Meadowside, Riverside, Waterside and Watermead.