"The Hardy Cottage, Higher Bockhampton":

Hardy modeled Tranter Dewey's house on his family's cottage: "It was a long low cottage with a hipped roof of thatch, having dormer windows breaking up into the eaves, a chimney standing in the middle of the ridge and another at the further end. The window shutters were not yet closed, and the fire- and candle-light within radiated forth upon the thick bushes of box and laurestinus growing in clumps outside, and upon the bare boughs of several codlin-trees hanging about in various distorted shapes...." (Part I, Chapter 2)<

"The organ stood on one side of the chancel, close to and under the immediate eye of the vicar when he was in the pulpit and also in full view of the congregation. Here [Fancy Day] sat down, for the first time in such a conspicuous position...." (Part IV, Chapter V)

This is NOT the organ referred to in Under the Greenwood Tree. Indeed it was presented to St. Michael's Church by Hardy's sister Katherine.

In December, 1996, the newly-restored West Gallery of St. Michael's was rededicated, and a new organ, replacing this one, was set there. Incidentally, Hardy himself once recommended the restoration of the West Gallery -- with the organ placed there.