The Holiday's cosy cottage sold for £675,000 to owners who didn't realise its fame

It wouldn't be Christmas until you've watched The Holiday - at least once.

The 2006 Christmas film, which stars Jude Law, Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet and Jack Black, is a firm festive favourite for 14 years.

The romantic film sees Cameron Diaz find true love in the English countryside, while living in a cosy cottage she swapped with a fellow unlucky-in-love woman, played by Kate Winslet.

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Rosehill Cottage is truly idyllic in the film, with fresh snow on the ground and a cosy log fire roaring inside.

One lucky couple has revealed that they actually own the gorgeous home in Holmbury St Mary, Surrey - but didn't realise its significance straightaway.

Jon Bromley, 57, and wife Cressida, 51, live in the house, and say they have tourists turning up taking photos.

The couple said they had no idea it was the quintessential cottage from the movie when they bought it - until they saw news of the sale in a property magazine.

Researchers visited their home but when they discovered it was too far from the cast and crew in London, they recreated it brick by brick in a studio.

Rosehill Cottage is an identical match for the Bromley's home - down to the picket fence, wooden gate, country garden, and rural track which Diaz famously slips down.

In the movie, newly-single Amanda Woods leaves Los Angeles to spend a two week holiday in Rosehill Cottage in rural England.

During this mini-break, she meets the landlady's brother Graham, played by Jude Law, and they fall in love.

Jon said: "It's one of those getaways where you go and hide yourself somewhere in a little village.

"There's nothing here but a pub next door, no shops.

"I'm just really proud of it, it’s a very lovely house and we're very lucky."

The Bromley's moved into the £625,000 home in 2019, already happily married and totally unaware of any Hollywood significance.

Sports photographer Jon said: "I came to see it on my own to begin with and just literally fell in love with it straight away.

"Just everything was beautiful - low ceilings, it's beamed, it's got a massive inglenook fireplace with a log burner in.

"Then we saw it in Country Life article saying something like 'the inspiration for 'The Holiday' cottage is back on the market'.

"I thought 'bloody hell!'

The three-bed cottage also boasts an AGA stove, underfloor heating and the iconic picket fence as seen in 'The Holiday'.

The landscape garden also contains a flagstone laid terrace and views over the surrounding Surrey hills.

Production designer for The Holiday, Jon Hutman said on the DVD commentary he was looking for the "cutest, smallest, most English cottage that we could find" when he stumbled on the real life home.

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