The Old Storehouse
Rooms, rates and booking

Rooms are sometimes not ready until 4pm but guests are welcome to arrive and drop off bags, use the loo and have a cup of tea or coffee at any time. Equally, there is no set hour within reason to leave at the end of a stay.

The bedrooms

There are two bedrooms (double and twin) on the second floor, both with armchairs and sofas as well. The en suite bathrooms have baths and showers. From early December to mid- January you can watch the sun rise across the valley.

Another double room is on the first floor with a smaller (4' 62 wide) bed and a bathroom with a bath and hand held shower attachment. Because the Storehouse was built with no internal walls, to allow grain and wool to dry, sounds from bedrooms do carry despite our best efforts to soundproof the building. It's not ideal for frisky honeymoon couples.

Attic

There is also an attic up a stone stairway outside the house with a bathroom and basic cooking facilities. From the four poster bed there are lofty views to the hills. It is also home to swallows and bats from April to early September and the outside door stays open all the time, allowing bird freedom of passage. It's a rare experience, and surprisingly popular, but it is an attic with an open door and swallows chatter when they wake up.

The conservatory

Downstairs, the conservatory where breakfast is eaten (old fashioned rather than Homes and Gardens) looks over the garden to the canal and hills. The refectory table can seat everyone staying, but breakfast may also be taken outside in the garden. It's a room simply for sitting and watching the birds, or reading, or – almost anything peaceful. The sitting room has a cast iron range, sofas, one of which needs re-springing but has assorted cushions and a ginger cat on it instead, armchairs and an upright piano. A good place for a wet and wintry afternoon and evening.