An apartment in a big country house
Big sofas, games, child-friendly antiques, mostly en-suite big bedrooms, open fires with wood provided, big eat-in kitchen, huge snooker room.
Two entertainment rooms with a catering kitchen (available for a cost)
Two private fenced gardens with outdoor games and bbqs
Shared lawns, walks, woods, lake, bike trail, space to run around and play games
Sleeps 14 + 2 double sofa beds and fold up beds available. An adjacent cottage sleeping 6 available
The space
An apartment and cottage in a Georgian country house. A large light kitchen with Victorian pews
A big living room with huge sofas, TV, games and an open fire. Also a double sofa bed
Large bedrooms with mostly super king beds (one can be made into singles), twins and bunks; four with four en-suite and two with adjoining loo. Room for kid's beds and cots, dog beds, provided on request and at a cost.
5 rooms on the second floor, with another double room with a bathroom and kitchenette, with a double futon, on the third
Garden, lakeside, private drive; bikes. Walks from the door, pubs with fires, and wild swimming down the drive. Local town with market, small shops, Tudor pubs, cinema, indoor pool. Shrewsbury, a medieval town 30 min away. Ironbridge 35 min away. Ludlow 1 hr away.
The house is 300 years old and 2* (the top 4% of listed houses), so has a very high historical landmark status, so sometimes the house can be not how a modern house would be, as we have to put the house first for Heritage England planning
Obviously a large environmental cost is laundry: we use pure cotton and clean and press it at a high temperature (for safety), so if you are able to bring your own, we'd like to offer you a 30% discount.
We aren't able to have candles, due to the risk to an important wood framed house: we have low lighting electric lamps and fairy lights, that do a glow that is similar. Strangely we can have open fires, but you must put the fireguards on before leaving the room
The rose room has a double day bed as well as a superking, at the foot of the big bed, so prob better for children, or people you know well.
There is a catering kitchen on the ground floor in the main house, with a six burner very large industrial cooker; there is a very large dining room next to it, and a saloon opposite that gets the afternoon sun, with rather shabby hand painted ceiling and gold decoration, (a wood fire is the only heating in the saloon)
The tower is on the floor above, and has its own bathroom and kitchenette, and double futon bed (and space for 3 extra beds) in the kitchenette. It’s up more spiral stairs. It is available at an extra cost
The cottage is close by, and sleeps 6, at an extra cost
For eating outside;
cutlery, glasses and crockery and bbq tools
a kettle, tea and coffee etc
2 Webber wood/charcoal bbqs, outdoor electric Ninja pizza oven and slow cooker, and also Ninja grill, both outdoor
Pellet pizza oven w pellets
Guest access
A wing of a large country house with a cottage. Gardens and woodland. Guests have a private entrance, courtyard and garden, and shared gravel carpark. EV charger. Explore the grounds, lakeside and the woods, shared with us, who live next door and are friendly
Hourly bus to Shrewsbury, Uber to Stafford 45 min, do pre book (mainline, 1hr 20 to London, less to Birmingham, Manchester, Crewe)
Other things to note
We have a large friendly family dog, and a cat (not allowed in the accommodation). Dog and child friendly place. Stairs (about 20) up to the accommodation, straight and spiral. Stairs (about 8) down to the games room. No amplified music outside, as we have neighbours. But do play guitar around the fire pit.
Ask us to help you with country stuff to do, boots, the local farm shop with kids' activities, lasagne or stew when you arrive (£5/pp) or anything else! We love having you, do let us know anything you need
If you fancy fake tan, there’s a pack of disposable sheets and pillows, cleaner etc; I’m afraid we have to charge if we can’t get it out of our sheets (as they are lovely pure cotton), in the cupboard
There are boxes of supplies for young children (waterproof sheets etc) and also a large chest of toys
There's also a box of supplies for dogs, an outdoor tap for hosing off, and beds and dog towels on request. The apartment is thoroughly cleaned, esp after dogs (hence the extra fee for dogs, that goes to extra cleaning)
