<P> A Wendy house or playhouse is a small house for children, large enough for one or more children to enter . Size and solidity can vary from a plastic kit to something resembling a real house in a child's size . Usually there is one room, a doorway with a window on either side, and little or no furniture other than that which the children improvise . </P> <P> The original was built for Wendy Darling in J.M. Barrie's play, Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up . Wendy was shot by the Lost Boy Tootles after arriving in Neverland, so Peter Pan and the Lost Boys built a small house around her where she had fallen . It was inspired by the wash - house behind Barrie's childhood home in Kirriemuir and first appeared in story form in The Little White Bird in which fairies build a house around Mamie Mannering--the prototype for Wendy--so protecting her from the cold . </P> <P> A prop house was created by Barrie for the first stage production of the play in 1904 . It was constructed like a tent so that it could be erected quickly during a song which Wendy starts with: </P>

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