Le Caillou

 Caillou Farm is too far south to be included in the diorama, but given that it was the location of Napoleon's final bivouac prior to the Waterloo debacle in seems fitting to construct a stand-alone section showing the farm and adjacent buildings.  As ever, the model is built by my father and I think he has done an especially good job of capturing the look of the original.

The original building was destroyed by fire and later rebuilt.  What is there now does not correspond with the original although the walled garden is exactly the same as it would have been in 1815.

The best image of the original building, deroofed from fire damage at the end of the battle

This image is very useful and corroborates the shape of the building.  It also shows a high uneven wall to the south.

The North wall of the garden.  It's much higher than the West wall and has a roundhouse built into the centre

This image helpfully shows the shape of the walled garden, but confusingly shows the main building in a slightly different configuration.  It also shows stabling in two separate buildings to the East.  Neither of these buildings exists today.

The modern aerial photo shows the walled garden is exactly the same shape.  The roundhouse in the middle of the North wall is the same.

The stables behind are taking shape

The view looking West.

the well looks similar to the one at La Belle Alliance.  The model version is yet to be built

The West wall from within the garden - the ground is raised and so the wall looks lower.

The East wall from within the garden

The modern building isn't much help.

This water colour painted immediately after the battle suggests that the roof of the farm must have been burnt a few days later.

This model mistakenly uses the modern building, not the original