Welcome to our one bedroom cottage – The Borrowers

Named by one of our predecessors who favoured these sets of books when she was a child. The theme runs throughout the cottage where you will find many related items including a set of the novels.

The Borrowers offers high levels of quality in a luxury oak furnished and well equipped cottage.

There is a Smart TV, a Blue Ray DVD player and you can choose your own choice of music via Alexa and Amazon Prime.

In the kitchen you will find a ceramic hob, granite worktops, combination microwave, full sized electric oven, fridge, freezer, dishwasher, coffee maker, slow cooker, food mixer, blenders/choppers and laundry facilities. There are facilities for you to make everything from a simple toasted sandwich to a full roast lunch – but with excellent local pubs serving delicious food you might just want to relax and take a break from cooking.

With underfloor heating in the living room and bathroom we make sure you are cosy on the cold evenings and there is also a fabulous ‘log’ fire to sit by in the evenings together with an independent thermostatically controlled electric radiator in the bedroom.

In the en-suite bathroom you will find a luxury free standing deep bath to soak away the strains at the end of the day and a separate double power shower to wake you up in the mornings if you can tear yourself away from the depths of the super kingsize bed and the snugness of the duvet. There are also complementary toiletries for you to use.

The cottage has a private decked patio equipped with tables and chairs and a bench – this is in addition to having access to the large shared communal gardens with two gazebos, swing seat, picnic tables, BBQ hut, ‘pub’ and the Lookout over the pond.

We make sure that the bird feeders outside the cottage are well stocked for our regular feathered visitors – sparrows, swifts, yellow hammers, all manner of tits, collared doves, wood pigeons, gold finches, woodpeckers and robins and you will also find various additional feeding stations dotted around the gardens. Pheasants, rabbits and Muntjack Deer often visit and wander around the garden and the resident ducks raise their broods by the pond. Do look out for the owls and bats at dusk as they emerge – it’s magical!

The Borrowers is ideal for couples, and babies and toddlers are welcome – we can provide a cot and highchair, but as there is only one bedroom it is not suitable for older children. It has the facility to be booked alongside The Bee’s Knees (4* Gold rated) offering accommodation for larger groups. Pets of all kind are positively welcomed, and we try to keep our rules to an absolute minimum, but they must not be allowed into the bedroom or on to any furniture. They must not be left unaccompanied in the cottage or in the gardens as we have free range ducks, plus a very deep pond.  We ask you to kindly not smoke inside the cottage, but you may smoke in the gardens.