Four award winning stone cottages on our non-working farm, in a glorious but not remote location over looking dales and rolling countryside in the heart of the White Peak area of the Peak District. Cotterill farm has just achieved the Gold Award, a new classification by Enjoy England, the country’s official grading organisation, one of only 10 cottage owners achieving this, for cottages deemed to ‘provide exceptional quality in all areas but in particular in service’ from over 1,000 inspected holiday properties in Derbyshire and the Peak District.

Three cottages are for four persons and the other is an equally large cottage but only sleeping two. Although consistently graded 4 Star, all cottages have within the last year had new kitchens fitted with gloss work-tops, halogen cookers and gorgeous granite stone sinks. The bathrooms have also been up-graded. The cottages have exposed beams and stone-work. They are 300 yards up our private drive and form part of a courtyard facing outwards over the surrounding fields and dales to give excellent views and some degree of privacy. In front of these cottages is a large grassed and garden area. There is ample area for off-road parking. The two person cottage has a galleried bedroom overlooking the large living room, in the centre of which is a log burner standing on a stone plinth acting as a focal point It also has a five piece suite in the classy bathroom.

The Dairy (sleeps 2)

This 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.

The floor of the lounge is polished stone flags (with quality rugs in appropriate places) and a log burner on a stone plinth is a focal feature in the middle of the room. Some of the stone walls are exposed, as are the extensive wood beams.

The tastefully co-ordinated furniture and furnishings are of a high standard, including a leather Chesterfield suite and an Irish dresser (similar to a Welsh one). Most of the crockery is china.

The galleried bedroom has a polished wooden floor, the stain for which contrasts well with the stain of the wooden open tread stairs. The rugs on the stone and pine floor blend in well.

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 below.

Dale View (sleeps 4)

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) and kitchen area to take advantage of the views. The television is a wall hanging LCD type, and there is a coal effect stove to provide more flexibility with heating.

The bedrooms and shower room (with a seat inside the cubicle) are 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. There is a second TV in the twin bedroom.

Cotterill Farm Barn (sleeps 4)

This detached cottage stands separate from our other three cottages and the land on which the cottage stands together with parking area and a grassed area is surrounded within its boundaries by a dry stone wall, offering total privacy.

The entrance hall opens into the hall way, off which are two bedrooms, one double with an en-suite shower room, and one twin. Upstairs is a second shower room, good sized lounge, with television and video, with both a leather Chesterfield Settee and also a further comfortable spacious L shaped settee (excellent for lounging on).

Also on the first floor is the dining area room and forming the second half of a 'L shape' is the well equipped kitchen, again with gloss work-tops, real stone granite sink and halogen cooker. Having been re-built with cavity walls, the cottage is extremely warm, even in the coldest of winters.

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 but has the more conventional layout of lounge/kitchen on the ground floor and the two bedrooms and a fully equipped bathroom (full-sized bath with shower over the bath) on the first floor. This cottage also has a second TV in the twin bedroom.

Information and Housekeeping

In each cottages there are seven(!) highly organised information folders, partly written by the owners themselves who are lovers of the Peak. Guests have heaped praise on this source of information which ensure that even those who have stayed with us numerous times still find plenty new to do. Events lists are supplied in advance between May and September. Housekeeping and attention to detail is regarded by the owners, who strive to encourage return visits, as being of paramount importance as is their concern is to ensure guests have an excellent holiday.

The Immediate Environs

There are two wild flowers meadows on our land, one of which borders a nature reserve leading after just over a mile to the Rive Dove (at Wolfscote Dale). One mile downstream is Dovedale. The cottages are located off a quiet country lane between the highly popular village of Hartington and its smaller, quieter neighbour, Biggin-by-Hartington. Both villages have pubs serving full meals cafes and a church. (One of the pubs is just 350 yards away) There is also an excellent restaurant about a mile away. Biggin has a lovely Hall where excellent cream teas are sold.

Numerous footpaths surround the land on which the cottages stand, offering unrivalled walking in the best part of the White Peak. The highly popular Tissington Trail, which runs for 17 miles, is used by walkers, cyclists and horse riders, and is less than 1 mile from us. Two further trails, (both of similar distance), are within 3 miles. These three tracks are ideal for family cycling, as is the network of quiet minor roads, which can be accessed at numerous points along the trails.

Location

Buxton, Matlock, Bakewell, Ashbourne, Leek and Chatsworth House are all about 11 miles away on the edge of the Peak District at different points on the compass, confirming our claim to be very much in the heart of the White Peak area of the Peak District. (The White Peak is the area of rolling countryside, dales, streams and rivers limestone villages and dry-stone walls, which give the area so much character)

Phone: Patrick and Frances Skemp 01298 84447
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