LEGO Tudor Building

As you can see, I purchased the next in this LEGO “Modular Building” series.  I have previously written about the Jazz Club, the Boutique Hotel, and the Natural History Museum that I have built.  These kits are typically released in January of each year and before I had even finished the Museum in the spring of 2024, I was already looking forward to the next installment.  But when I saw what it was, I initially thought I would not buy it.

While I am interested in many different architecture styles, Tudor style is not one of them.

And given the three sets that I already had built, I did not think this Tudor one would really fit in with the others.  I remained feeling this way for several weeks before that satisfying snap of LEGO pieces coming together swayed my thinking.  I knew I did not want to wait another entire year to satisfy that sensation.  But it was not until I had finished income taxes and a number of other boring activities before I was able to get the kit out and get started.

As usual, I laid out all the bags, this time numbering 20.  I could barely fit them all on my workspace.  I returned all of them, except for #1, to the box ensuring I had received all the numbered bags.

Using the tried-and-true approach taught to me by my grandsons, I organized the pieces by color with the two small bags of tiny pieces in my plastic containers to keep them from getting lost.

If you have read my previous LEGO posts, you will see that I am assembling in a new workspace.  For those of you who have read my doll house furniture posts, you will recognize this space as where I built all those miniature furnishings.  While it is not as large a surface as the table I have previously used, it has incredibly bright lighting thanks to an LED shop light that my sister gave me (thanks again Sis!).

Working through the first two bags, I had the flooring installed for the first-floor establishments along with the single head toilet.  Looking at where my little LEGO figure is standing, I was actually quite surprised how large the sidewalk was as it seemed this would make for rather small interior spaces.  My previous buildings all had much smaller sidewalks as seen in the photo below.

Working through the next several bags, I added in the haberdashery, with the tiny restaurant kitchen behind it.

Continuing with progressive bags, I completed most of the interior of the first-floor restaurant…

… and once I had finished the ninth bag, I had the first-floor establishments complete as viewed from the street…

… and as a top-down look at the interior.

Once I had completed the next two bags, I had a good start on the second floor…

… which I next filled with the furnishings for a clock workshop…

… and a clock sales floor.

A couple of more bags added the remaining walls and windows for a complete second floor.

This complete second floor could then be placed onto the first floor.

I started working on the third floor but after finishing two bags, I was not sure what this room was going to turn out to be.  I could tell I had made a couch and a coffee table, but I did not know why there was a newspaper on the floor partially covered by a box.  Also, puzzling was a pink ball on the floor and some sort of odd stand in front of the partially finished brown wall.

After finishing a couple more bags, I discovered that the third floor was an apartment above the clock shop, that odd looking stand was a cat tower and the pink ball was a play toy for the live-in cat.

With the next to last bag, I added a rather complex looking roof…

… which also finished off the third floor.

Placing the completed 3^rd floor onto the second floor left me just one bag which would add a finished roof over the apartment.

With the roof now complete, my Tudor Corner was finished.

Despite me initially not liking this Tudor style building, I really loved building it.  I always find it so entertaining to see the little unique-shaped pieces they add to create such cute features as in this clock shop with multiple sizes of clocks and a work bench with all the tools of the trade.  The LEGO company never ceases to amaze the little kid in me.

This 2025 Tudor building is the 20^th in this series and has convinced me that I will continue to buy whatever new kit comes out each year.  In fact, I found a website (https://www.thebrickland.com/lego-creator-modular/) that showed each of the twenty kits released.  Some of these I recalled seeing at my nephew’s house several years ago…

… and some of which I wished I could still buy and add to my tiny LEGO town.

But for now, my little city block will be limited to just these four, at least that is until next January.