Mr & Mrs Smith

Rose Cottage

Wiltshire, United Kingdom

This 17th-meets-21st-century cottage is set in beautifully landscaped flower-filled grounds amid pristine Dorset/Wiltshire border woodland. Rose Cottage also boasts a separate, sleek one-bedroom garden house perfect for extended family or couples after seclusion. This charming self-catering holiday home provides a dose of real country life with every modern amenity. Designed to maximise communal living, Rose Cottage is perfect for indoor and outdoor living and entertaining. There’s access from the lounge to a terrace and garden with barbecue, as well as a lounging deck off the garden house. Little ones can retreat to the garden cottage to watch DVDs or play on the Wii, while couples enjoy pure privacy in the main house’s stylish surroundings. Solid, natural materials and a palate of oak, elm, slate and plaster create an attractive envelope for original furnishings that blend Elizabethan and Victorian antiques with mid-century pieces. Rural splendour to suit urbane sensibilities.

Need to know

• Rates information From £1,224 for a three-night weekend to £1,736 for a week in low season and £2,464 for a week in high season (Easter, May bank holidays, July–September, half-term dates). Christmas and new year stays are £3,136 per week. Mid-week stays are £800–£1,152.
• Ideal for One or two families or couples looking to revel in secluded AONB countryside.
• Sleeps 8 (two doubles a twin plus a garden house with a double).
• Property style Classically modern country cottage with a hip one-bedroom garden house. The former 17th-century gamekeepers home has been given a high-spec renovation and chic contemporary extension.
• Grounds Set amid woodland with 1.5 acres of garden and views over valley and country manor.
• Minimum hire Three nights.
• Children A travel cot and two highchairs can be requested in advance. More...
• Booking process Smith deposit taken when you book. A 50 per cent deposit is required on bookings made more than four weeks before rental, with full payment 21 days prior to arrival. Any bookings taken after the four-week deadline are to be paid in full. A £750 damage deposit is required one week before arrival (funds need to be cleared) and will be refunded in full no later than 14 days after departure if no damage or loss is recorded (terms and conditions apply).
• Also No smoking inside, but there are two covered verandas. No pets.

Floor plan

• Bedrooms

  There are three bedrooms in main house, two on the ground floor (which share a bathroom) and a master bedroom on the first floor. All have hanging space and drawers and there are two separate high-spec bathrooms (none are ensuite as such). The fourth bedroom is in the garden house which has its own separate shower room and heating and hot-water system, as well as  very sexy alfresco shower.

• Kitchen

  This is part of the open-plan living room and equipped with high-quality Miele appliances, Lacanche cooker, Nespresso coffee machine and large prep area. A separate pantry stocks cooking essentials and houses washer/dryer.

• Living room

  The huge open-plan living space accommodates kitchen, dining and lounge areas. Two double doors lead to terrace and garden with glorious views over that Wiltshire/Dorset valley.

• Dining room

  This is incorporated in the living space and includes a table that seats eight.

• Gardens

  Rose Cottage is not only set amid woodland in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, but it has its own 1.5 acres of designed gardens which are rendered even more soul-stirring thanks to views over the valley and a country manor.

• Private parking

  There is ample off-street parking for up to four cars.