Berkeley House
It’s easy to lose your friends (or yourself) in this imposing property spread over three spacious floors – so we’ve made a handy plan of the rooms so you can steer your way around them
Interior
BedroomsThere are eight bedrooms in Berkeley House: a master four-poster en suite, a double en suite next door and a separate four-poster en suite with its own wet room in the Orangery & Coach House (a separate building in the garden). There are also three twin rooms. There is a sofa bed available and two further camp beds – all three are only available to under eights though, for a charge of £75 per person per weekend. In Bay Tree Court there is one double room and one twin room. In Chipping Apartment, there is one double and two twin rooms.
First floor
Master Bedroom: The largest room, with a black four-poster bed frame, black denim walls, a black fireplace with painted white logs, an over-sized dressing table and en suite bathroom with an in-wall plasma TV. Bedroom 2: Double room with a studded red corduroy headboard and en suite bathroom with shower and bath. Bedroom 3: Twin room with grey chequered throws and cheeky cow prints.
Second floor
Bedroom 4: Twin room set slightly apart from the other three, on a lower mezzanine level. Decorated with mirrored black wardrobes and sharing a bathroom with a raindrop shower and bath with the other rooms on this floor. Bedroom 5: Double four-poster room with cool sloping floors, a black fireplace stuffed with painted white logs and a large white and grey day bed. Bedroom 6: All-black double room, featuring a black denim wall and peach-soft leather sofa. Bedroom 7: The smallest twin room, but with the highest views from the house.
The Orangery & Coach House
Bedroom 8: Large double room with a white, seven-foot four-poster bed and a wet room, set apart for total privacy in the Orangery & Coach House apartment in the grounds of Berkeley House. The apartment has a 50-inch flatscreen TV and cinema sound system in an adjacent entertainment/dining area.
KitchenThe fully equipped stainless steel kitchen has a dishwasher, caterers’ fridge, microwave and coffee machine. (There is a utility room with a washer/dryer next door.) The kitchen can easily cater for large groups, professional chefs or catering companies. There is a small charge for having the fridge pre-stocked. If you are self-catering and need to go shopping, see our ‘Services’ section.
Living roomA huge entertaining room with four enormous sprawling day bed sofas and scattered soft leather bucket chairs under a sparkling chandelier. The lofty room is crowned with a 42-inch TV, DVD and CD system.
Dining roomTo the side of the open-plan kitchen is the conservatory dining room with a table that seats 14–16 under a suspended acrylic chain mail lighting system. The Snug, next door, is a jumble of leather sofas and bean bags; the perfect accompaniment to its PS2 and 40-inch flatscreen.
OtherChipping Apartment, a few doors down from Berkeley House, is an all-white space of oversized mirrors and painted white floorboards. The double bedroom is a tangle of patchwork bedspread and chandelier, whilst the twin room next door offers top-to-toe single beds, again with all-white décor (a third room, also a twin, mirrors that). There is a bathroom with shower and bath, a kitchen with washer/dryer, oven and microwave, and a dining area for six.
Bay Tree Court, across the square, is a perfect add-on for guests of Berkeley House or Chipping apartment, and offers a double bedroom featuring Lena’s photography, a twin room, and a mirror-walled living room of daybeds, old black leather chairs, huge pieces of art and a dining area seating eight. There is a washer/dryer, oven and microwave in the small kitchen.
Outdoor
GardensBerkeley House has extensive manicured gardens with three large tables (that can be configured to the space, seating up to 30), daybeds, sofas and chairs. A ‘fire pit’ with pre-chopped wood and barbecue awaits.
ParkingThere is one private space in front of the Orangery & Coach House, and free parking on the road in front of the house.
OtherThe Orangery & Coach House has a long room with a 50-inch flastscreen and cinema surround sound – perfect for movie nights, grand banquets at the vast table or private entertaining for the lucky couple staying in the double room next to it.
