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Steeply-rising hills, crowned with beech woods envelope the Owlpen Valley or pen, with the manor and cottage hamlet nestling below. This is Laurie Lee country, a mystery land of deeply wooded hills and trackless bottoms dividing this ‘Royal Triangle’ of the Cotswolds from the Welsh borderland.
The distinctive cottages at Owlpen sleep from two to eight. They include the listed historic buildings nestling around the old manor house, honeymoon retreats and sizable houses. Old and new, all have been carefully restored by us since 1974. We have pioneered in England a new concept in quality cottages, backed up with professional management and services. Yet the Owlpen experience is unique. As the press has commented, it offers the space, privacy and ‘timeless English beauty’ that no traditional hotel can provide. This is a private hideaway with all the civilized comforts and attention to detail that today’s independent traveller looks for - nearly always in vain.
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Tithe Barn (Sleeps 2) view availability | book it
Our smallest cottage provides a cosy retreat with truly rustic charm. It is a character split level studio apartment set in the last bay of Owlpens’s listed barn, converted above the coach house in about 1700. With massive oak beams which date back to the 1450’s it has been completely renovated to bring the same qualities of Owlpens larger cottages.
The open plan studio, light and spacious, has comfortable seating and a double bed. Two steps lead up to the kitchen/dining area and bathroom beyond. Outside there is a large terrace with views towards the manor gardens and meadows.
Summerfield Cottage (Sleeps 2) view availability | book it
Rural seclusion for two in a sunny cottage, completely self contained, converted from an ancient Cotswold stone byre next to Owlpen’s original Elizabethan demesne farm.
This traditional cottage is laid out on one floor with an entrance hall, pretty sitting room with dining area, bedroom with double bed, kitchen and bathroom. Delightful views towards Owlpen with its church and the manor house.
Peter’s Nest (Sleeps 2) view availability | book it
In a clearing below Peter’s Nest Wood known mysteriously as Hell’s Throat, hard by a woodland spring is the original tiny cottage of Woodwells farmstead., outside, the gardens provide a meeting place for sociable pheasants.
Downstairs; we enter through the kitchen which leads into the living room with comfortable dining and sitting areas, the bathroom is adjacent. Upstairs; Double attic bedroom enjoys views to the west, down the Owlpen Valley. Ample parking space and a small private garden. This is a perfect ‘love nest’ for two.
Manor Farm (Sleeps 4) view availability | book it
This roomy modern cottage is purpose designed for holiday use. It has the advantage of being easy to run but is built in traditional Cotswold style with gables and mullioned windows. It stands in a splendid raised position commanding distant views over Owlpen’s gently sloping valley and rich woods. Downstairs; a porch leads to the hall with a modern kitchen beyond. The light and spacious sitting/dining room has an open fireplace, ideal for entertaining. Upstairs; there is an eighteenth century Hepplewhite four poster bed in the main bedroom, perfectly voluptuous. Second bedroom has twin beds. Shower room.
Over Court (Sleeps 4) view availability | book it
Adjoining Manor Farm and built to the same high specification, Over Court also combines the 46 traditional features of the Cotswold farmhouse with the cossettings of modern life. The gardens are surrounded by pasture fields.
Downstairs; An entrance hall with washing machine, a large country kitchen-cum-dining room with fridge freezer and microwave and a sitting room.
Upstairs; there are three bedrooms - one big double room, one twin and a third small single bedroom for a nanny or a child and a bathroom.
The Court House (Sleeps 4) view availability | book it
This is a charming Stuart garden building of about 1620, architecturally Grade 1 listed. It has been imaginatively converted to provide a chic little cottage for two to five, like a dolls’ house. Downstairs; You will find the kitchen and bathroom, with a little loggia restored as an attractive dining room. The glass doors, divided by a simple Tuscan column, here frame a view of the east wing of the manor house and its yew trees. immortalized by the etching of the artist F.L. Griggs, Upstairs: a narrow spiral staircase leads to a sitting room in the old Justice Room on the first floor, with the main bedroom with double bed (and a basin) beyond. The stairs lead up again to two cosy bedrooms on the second attic floor - with low ceilings for Stuart statures. The first, with a single bed or twin childs bed under the eaves leads through the trusses to the larger one, curtained off with a 4ft double bed. The oval bull’s eye windows enjoy delightful views to Uley, whose church spire can just be seen among the trees below the bare summit of Uley Bury.
Marlings End (Sleeps 5) view availability | book it
This friendly cottage housed one of the ‘thirteen weavers of Owlpen’ before the decline of the Cotswold woolen-cloth industry in the 1830’s. It is built of Cotswold stone and has magnificent southerly views and an old cottage garden, set about with drystone walls. Nestling below the hanging beachwoods it lives up to the name Fiery Lane which leads here from old English words meaning ‘A wooden Hill’. With three bedrooms it can sleep five people (including children) with all the comforts of an easily run home.
Downstairs: A porch leads to the hallway and a cosy mid-Victorian sitting room with an open fireplace. There is a farmhouse dining room and a kitchen with a fridge/freezer, microwave, dishwasher, walk-in larder and tumble dryer. The cloakroom area downstairs has a washbasin and lavatory and a washing machine next door. Upstairs; are three bedrooms, one with a double bed, another with twin beds and a third with one single bed and finally a bathroom, antiques and chintz. It is set in a large private garden.
Woodwells Farm (Sleeps 6) view availability | book it
This fairy-tale Cotswold stone farmhouse is approached up a long and sometimes bumpy private drive. It leads behind the church and manor house past Manor Farm and Over Court cottages into the heart of the beech woods. Downstairs: a porch leads to the front hall, with an elegant dining room seating up to eight to the right and a pretty Victorian sitting-room to the left. There is a modern farmhouse kitchen/ breakfast room, fully equipped with a microwave, fridge/freezer and dishwasher. Beyond is a back door and hallway with space for country clothes, coats and boots – it also has a washing machine. There is a shower room (with wash basin and lavatory) making the twin-bedded room here independent. Upstairs are two spacious double bedrooms both with double beds, one with a Victorian brass bed and also a large bathroom. The whole house is particularly cosy – with pictures, antiques and chintz. It is set in a large private garden.
The Grist Mill (Sleeps 8) view availability | book it
This early eighteenth-century watermill lies hidden at the bottom of the valley, surmounted by a frivolous leaded cupola and weather vane. It is a listed historic building, completely restored to provide the ultimate in holiday accommodation. Contemporary in comfort and style, the whole building is like a time warp. It has unrivalled character and charm with features of the old mill carefully preserved. There are beams, bolting and cleaning machinery, shutes, bursts and traps inside, furnished with cottage antiques. Outside is the gigantic mill-wheel with race and pantrough. The mill pond is a haven for wild life coming right up to the building.
The ground floor has an entrance hall leading to a large open-plan kitchen cum dining/living room, with a snug wood-burning stove. The kitchen is in fitted pine with dishwasher, fridge/freezer, microwave and an antique pine table. The 1st floor sleeps four, the master bedroom has a rare and opulent early eighteenth century oak four-poster bed. The second bedroom has twin beds. There is a bathroom and ample landing with the original loading door opening to the west. The second floor (granary floor) opened for larger parties, is reached by the original elm stairs. It acts as a hide for the bird life on the mill pond. Here is a large double bedroom and an open children’s room, with two single beds among bolting machinery. A second bathroom here makes this four-bed roomed cottage comfortable for eight guests. Above this floor is a gantry cat-walk. The pulley of a sack-hoist hangs in the glazed lantern, whence light filters down through successive levels of glazed floor lights set in traps. The Grist Mill has its own drive and enclosed garden offering complete serenity, with the constant murmur of the Ewelme brook running gently by.
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