GW: "I have never given this one a second thought, but would have expected it to have come from around the Northampton area, as that has always been the historical shoe making area in the UK. However the name is fairly common throughout the UK and would suggest that the building may have been owned by a Cobbler at some time. I then looked in the PC to see that they suggest it is from that area, although the building stone from that area is very similar the style in my opinion is not. I think if Northampton goes back to the time of William 1 so the locality would be steeped in old buildings, but these would almost certainly have been with Cruck End, which your associates picture and indeed the model is not of that style or even that age. 

I would suggest that the locality is some 70 miles west of Northampton and probably somewhere in the Cotswolds, given the brilliant colour of the vegetation in your associates picture, however it could be in any part of a triangle from Warwick, down to Gloucester and back up to Hereford, given the style and stone colour. "