North Farmcote is a working family farm producing sheep and cereals. It is situated high on the Cotswold escarpment in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
The house was built around 1840 for the second son of Lord Sudeley. It has a flagstoned hall entrance leading to comfortable spacious accommodation upstairs. There is a double en suite/family room, twin en-suite and twin with private bathroom. The rooms are non-smoking and equipped with television, radio, hairdryer and hospitality tray.
The house is surrounded by a large garden where guests can have afternoon tea on the terrace in the summer and enjoy the views across to the Malvern Hills and Welsh mountains beyond.
Farmcote is well situated for walking, with the Cotswold Way crossing the farm. In the immediate vicinity there are lovely country walks, some of which can take in a pub or two. Nearby is the Cotswold Farm Park at Temple Guiting, the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Steam Railway at Toddington, historic Sudeley Castle at Winchcombe, Prescott Hill Climb for motor enthusiasts and England's highest fountain at Stanway. There are good country pubs nearby.
Broadway, Chipping Campden, Stow-on-the-Wold, Bourton-on-the-Water and Cheltenham are all within a half-hour's drive, with Stratford, Oxford and Bath only an hour away. |
