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Cotterill Farm Cottages
Self-Catering Holiday Cottages in the Peak
District National
Park, England, UK
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Our Cottages
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Our cottages have consistently achieved the
grading of 4 Stars
from the English Tourism Council (and under the old grading system
'Highly
Commended'), but despite this we have constantly striven to improve our
facilities.
Thus we have recently upgraded both the bathroom
and the kitchen
in each cottage, with the installation of gloss work-tops, halogen
cookers
(excellent for near instantaneous heat), dishwahers and real stone
granite
sinks, adding to the existing solid oak kitchen units. and many more
improvements
have recently been made to each of the individual cottages Services
offered are also being constantly improved, such as the availability of
wireless internet access.
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The Dairy - a Cottage for Two
People
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The Dairy exterior
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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, which overlooks a large open
plan lounge (twenty feet by twenty feet), rising to the rafters.
This lounge has polished stone flags on the floor;
a log burner
stands on a stone plinth and is a focal feature in the middle of the
room.
Some of the stone walls are exposed, as are the extensive wood beams.
The cottage benefits from central heating
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The tastefully co-ordinated furniture and
furnishings are
of an extremely high standard. As you would expect of a cottage of
this quality, there is a large tv, video dvd and Sky Plus wih full sky programmes
(including the film and sports package) . There is a second tv in the
bedroom.We would urge you to have a look at our virtual tour - see
just below
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
home page. There is an interior scene of the Dairy both on the virtual
tour
but also in the last three seconds of a 20 second video film which can
be
seen by reverting to our home page and clicking under the 'Britain's
Best
Breaks' logo
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The Dairy Interior
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Four Person Cottages
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Featured Stone Steps of Dale View
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Dale View
So named because of the views of the surrounding
dales. This cottage has an upstairs lounge (featuring a substantial old
exposed
beam seen on picture below - the rest of the items in this picture
have changed and been heavily upgraded, but the beam remains the same!)
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 screeen 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. This cottage also has full Sky programmes (i.e. including the sports and film package).
Dale View Interior
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The Lounging Area of Liffs Cottage
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Liffs Cottage
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.
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The Milking Parlour - a 3-person
cottage
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The Milking Parlour is the ground floor of this former barn.
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, a decent sized shower room/wet room, (not with a shower
cubicle
but you walk into the shower area, which is seperated from the rest of
the
room by glass blocks, giving far more room for manoevering). 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).
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The Lounge of the Milking Parlour
Being our latest conversion
the Milking Parlour has just that much higher specificiations, such as
stone worktops,
and central heating, in addition to the specification of the other
cottages The internal picture above does not do the Milking Parlour
justice, having been taken with a wide angle lens, it reduces the size
of the room.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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