Self-Catering Holiday Cottages in the Peak District National Park, England, UK

Our holiday cottages

Our cottages have consistently achieved the grading of 4 Stars from the English Tourism Council, but despite this we have constantly striven to improve the furnishings, the equipment and the finishes to the cottages. Likewise the range of facilities offered are also constantly being  improved, with for example full 'SKY' programmes being offered in three cottages, wifi available in all but one and cycles being available for hire at very modest cost. For more information on these facilties offered, please click on the link to the left marked 'facilties'.

All cottages have gloss work-tops,(in fact the Milkng parlour has stone work-ops) solid oak kitchen units,halogen cookers (excellent for near instantaneous heat) dishwashers and real stone granite sinks. All but one cottage has a second tv in one of the bedrooms. Standards of housekeeping are second to none, something regularly commented upon by our guests.

The Dairy - sleeps 2

This really spacious cottage has a large sized
bathroom with Italian floor tiles, containing five piece suite (separate shower cubicle and bidet), and a similarly well equipped kitchen. Above these two rooms is a good sized galleried bedroom with sufficent headroom all the way between the eaves (behind the bannistairs in the picture to the right). .

This overlooks a large open plan lounge (twenty feet by twenty feet), rising to the rafter, in the centre of which is  a log burner standing on a stone plinth - a focal feature in the middle of the room. Some of the stone walls are exposed, as are the extensive wood beams. The floors are stone flags, with appropriate quality rug coverings. The cottage benefits from central heating.

This has often been described by our guests as being a 'second honeymoon cottage'. There is a private patio area in front of the cottage
with superb views, similar in fact to that on the aerial view on our location page.  By clicking on the 'Britains Best Breaks'  logo, above the photograph of the intterior of the Dairy, you access a 20 second video of Cotterill Farm and the last three seconds has a shot of the interior of the Dairy, taken from the galleried bedroom.

Dale View - sleeps 4

So named because of the views of the surrounding dales. This cottage has an upstairs lounge (featuring a substantial impressive old exposed beam) and kitchen area to take advantage of the views. Downstairs are two double bedrooms, making this cottage particularly suited for two couples.

The shower room is also on the ground floor. There are two means of entry and exit, on the ground floor or up attractive external stone steps to the living area (with of course an internal flight of stairs as well).

A second TV in one of the bedrooms supplements the flat screen TV on the first floor. Some guests occasionally choose to sit out in the early evening sun on the paved area at the top of the outside stone steps using it similar to a private patio area. The supplementary log effect heater adds to the superb atmosphere of this cottage.

Liffs Cottage - sleeps 4

So named because of the view of Liffs Hill two miles away.

This cottage, like its adjoining neighbour, Dale View, fronts on to a grassed area and beyond are fields, dales and rolling hills, (accessible via a squeeze stile near the adjacent off road-parking area).

This cottage also has a partly exposed old beam has the more conventional layout of lounge/kitchen on the ground floor and the two bedrooms and a fully equipped bathroom and shower on the first floor. Again, there is a second TV in the twin bedroom.

The Milking Parlour - sleeps 3

This is the ground floor of a barn converted in 2006, - upstairs is another letting unit but guests should have no need to worry about noise transmission, as we have comfortably exceeded what are in any event the latest very strict building control noise transmission requirements with the installation of an independantly hanging ceiling and a false floor.

The Milking Parlour has two bedrooms, one double and one single, and a quality spacious shower room with underfloor heating.  This is en-suite to both bedrooms - in other words there are two doors into the shower room.

The living area is extremely comfortable and and has as a focal point a sympathetic log effect stove (not the old fashioned type that were less sympathetic). The purpose of this stove is principally to add to the atmoshperic effect as the central heating combined with the very latest insulation techniques ensures that this is an extremely warm cottage in even the deepest of winters.

Being our latest conversion the Milking Parlour has just that much a higher specificiation. The picture to the right is taken with a wide angle lens and makes the room seem signifcantly smaller than it actually is.

This converted barn is located just 15 yards from the other cottages and in a way this barn forms the final part of the courtyard. Adjacent to the Milking Parlour is very large grassed area shared with the other cottages. 

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