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Sleeps 12
Weekly prices from £1300
Self catering accommodation in Denstroude sleeps 12.
Features include: Hot Tub • Short Breaks • Pets allowed • Pub nearby • Detached • Games Room • Sleeps 12
Accommodation overview: A spacious, detached farmhouse with the added attraction of a hot tub on the patio and separate shared external games room and fully equipped gym with football table and table tennis. Set in its own large lawned garden surrounded by its 100-acre farm, this delightful holiday property provides something for everyone whatever the weather, making it an ideal holiday destination or excuse for a get together for families and friends of all age groups, perhaps celebrating a birthday or an anniversary. Surrounded by the ancient Blean Woodland, where nightingales sing, this makes an ideal spot for walkers, cyclists and horse riders. The city of Canterbury, steeped in history and culture, is only a ten minute drive and the splendour of its cathedral, the oldest in the country, dominates the skyline. See the city via horse drawn carriage or take a river tour. Faversham is one of England’s most charming market towns and offers a tour of its well known brewery. Smell the locally grown Kentish hops and taste the Kentish ales and speciality lagers! Definitely worth a visit, particularly during the hop festival during the first weekend in September, celebrating the golden age of hop picking. Enjoy oysters at Whitstable and experience the famous sunsets across the Swale. Visit the traditional British seaside town of Herne Bay where a boat can be taken to spot some seals, take a trip back in time on a Thames sailing barge or just take advantage of the delightful beaches. Rail connections from Whitstable or Canterbury to London for further sightseeing opportunities. Shop and pub 1 mile. Spacious living room with wood-burning stove in brick fireplace and French doors leading to conservatory. Well-equipped kitchen/dining room with breakfast bar, bifolding doors to the terrace and wooden floor. Utility/boot room with shower room and toilet. Conservatory. Twin bedroom with zip and link bed (can be 6ft double) and ornamental fireplace. First floor: Double bedroom with 6ft bed. Three twin bedrooms, one with zip and link bed, one with sloping ceiling. Bathroom with over-bath shower and toilet. Steep stairs to second floor: Double bedroom with 5ft bed and sloping ceiling. Bathroom with large corner bath and shower attachment, separate shower cubicle, toilet and sloping ceiling.
  
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Sleeps 12
Weekly prices from £1300
Self catering accommodation in St Margarets Bay sleeps 12.
Features include: • Short Breaks • Pets allowed • Golf nearby • Pub nearby • Detached • Games Room • Sleeps 12
Accommodation overview: Commanding stunning views across the English Channel, this attractive, spacious, family home for all seasons is the ideal property for a relaxing holiday with both friends or relatives. A decked terrace runs the length of the property, an ideal spot for soaking up the sun or relax after a brisk winter walk in front of a glowing log burner in the cosy living room, overlooking the frothing waves. Four of the six bedrooms have sea views and the other two have attractive garden views. There is also a games room. The white chalk cliff above St Margaret’s Bay is said to be the first place the sun reaches each morning on mainland Britain! The beach is famous for being the closest point to France and is the spot where Channel swimmers begin their marathon 21 mile swim. The village itself offers good pubs, restaurants and local shop within walking distance. The coastal path leads to the famous White Cliffs of Dover, gateway to England and now one of the UK’s protected Heritage coasts offering some of the best cliff coastal walking in the country. The lighthouse is the place where Marconi transmitted his first radio broadcast to France. Closer to France than London, bring a passport, catch a ferry from Dover and visit the French markets in Calais and Boulogne for the day. Visit Dover, Deal and Walmer Castle, Pines Garden and Metropole Galleries Folkestone. Canterbury 17 miles. Golf, sailing, cycling, horse riding locally. Shops and pubs 500 yards. Sixteen steps to entrance (twenty seven to rear entrance). Entrance hall. Large living room with wood-burning stove, French doors with sea views and wooden floor. Dining room with sea views. Three steps up to well-equipped kitchen with Rangemaster (for cooking), breakfast area, French doors to decked balcony and tiled floor. Utility. Double bedroom with ornamental fireplace. Separate toilet. Steep, narrow stairs to lower ground floor: Games room. First floor: Double bedroom with 6ft bed, TV, wash basin and sea views. Two further double bedrooms, one with TV, sea views and en-suite shower room with double shower cubicle and toilet. Twin bedroom with ornamental fireplace. Bathroom with hand-held shower over bath, separate shower cubicle and toilet. Fully-tiled shower room with toilet. Steep stairs to second floor: Twin bedroom with French doors to balcony.
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Sleeps 4
Weekly prices from £600 to £ 899
Self catering accommodation in Ottinge sleeps 4.
Features include: • Short Breaks • Pub nearby • Detached • Games Room • Sleeps 4
Accommodation overview: This beautifully restored Grade II listed thatched barn dating back 300 years, has been divided into two beamed holiday cottages equipped to a very high standard which reside in the grounds of the owners’ 500-year-old home Boyke Manor, where the great grandfather of Edward Elgar once lived, situated in the unspoilt Elham Valley, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Activities in the area include walking, horse riding, cycling, wildlife viewing, golf, beaches and art and crafts to name a few. Canterbury, great for shopping and sightseeing, and Dover, ideal for day trips to France, are both 20 minutes away. There is a fast train link to London (55 minutes). Shops ½ mile, pub 1 mile.
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Sleeps 10
Weekly prices from £1300
Self catering accommodation in Tenterden sleeps 10.
Features include: • Short Breaks • Pets allowed • Detached • Games Room • Garden • Sleeps 10
Accommodation overview: Potts Farm Oast offers guests a unique opportunity to stay in a spacious twin round kiln oast house surrounded by grassland farms with access to footpaths across the fields. Once used for drying fresh hops before they were sent to the brewers to flavour the beer, it has now been thoughtfully restored and makes an ideal holiday destination for two families, an extended family or groups of friends to enjoy the beautiful Kentish countryside and discover why it holds the title of ‘The Garden of England’. Stroll through the fields and picnic in the garden in the summer or take a brisk walk in winter and then return to curl up in front of the inviting wood-burning stove. To keep guests amused, there is a games room/snug in the roundel with board games and puzzles, and outside there is an enclosed lawned garden beside the oast with children’s play equipment and an open-fronted barn. If time permits, explore Tenterden – aptly described as ‘The Jewel of the Weald’ with its weatherboarded tea shops and cottages. Take a magical ride on the Kent and East Sussex Steam Railway to the medieval moated castle at Bodiam. Sample the local award-winning wines at Chapel Down Winery, visit Sissinghurst Castle Gardens (National Trust) created by the novelist - Vita Sackville west and Sir Harold Nicolson in the 1930s. Rye is a 30-minute drive. Beaches and sand dunes at Camber Sands are a 40-minute drive. Shop, pub and restaurant 11/2 miles. Step down to spacious living room with wood-burning stove. Morning room. Spacious kitchen/dining/family room. Utility/boot room. Games room/snug in roundel. Separate toilet. First floor: Step up to double bedroom with en-suite bathroom with over-bath shower and toilet. Three steps up to double bedroom in roundel. Three steps up to twin bedroom in second roundel. Double bedroom. Twin bedroom. Bathroom with over-bath shower and toilet.
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Sleeps 6
Weekly prices from £900 to £ 1299
Self catering accommodation in Westbere sleeps 6.
Features include: • Short Breaks • Pets allowed • Pub nearby • Games Room • Sleeps 6
Accommodation overview: Situated in a ½-acre garden with a decked terrace, this 400-year-old cottage, one of a pair, is full of character. Westbere is a preservation area and close to Westbere Lakes an area of Special Scientific Status where a kingfisher or heron may be spotted. Canterbury is a 10-minute drive. Whitstable and Herne Bay are a 20-minute drive, with seafront, beaches, Victorian architecture - hire a boat and search for seal colonies. For trips to France, the Channel Tunnel is 30 minutes away. Shops 1 mile, pub 20 yards. Living room with wood-burning stove in inglenook fireplace. Dining room. Kitchen. Double bedroom with 5ft bed and ornamental fireplace. Bathroom with hand-held shower attachment and toilet. Shower room with toilet. First floor: Double bedroom with wooden floor. Second floor: Twin bedroom with sloping ceiling. Beamed throughout.
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Sleeps 8
Weekly prices from £1300
Self catering accommodation in Wittersham sleeps 8.
Features include: • Pool • Short Breaks • Pets allowed • Pub nearby • Games Room • Sleeps 8
Accommodation overview: Enjoying beautiful views across the countryside in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Stocks Farm Oast has been converted and furnished to a high standard and makes the perfect holiday home in which to relax and get away from it all. Set within the owner’s grounds, the property also benefits from a downstairs bedroom and shower room, which makes it suitable for those with walking difficulties. The owner also offers use of a swimming pool by arrangement.
The Oast is surrounded by National Trust properties, including Small Hythe Place (the home of the enchanting actress Ellen Terry), Scotney Castle and the stunning grounds and garden of Sissinghurst Castle. Pashney Manor Gardens is the winner of the HHA/Christie’s Garden of the Year award and offers an open air opera in the summer months. There are further attractions at Leeds and Bodiam Castles.
A trip to Rye is well worth a visit and is one of the most popular destinations within the area, with its half-timbered houses and the country’s oldest functioning pendulum clock - found in the heart of the town. An interesting day trip leads to Battle, the site for the most famous land battle in British history. Battle Abbey dominates the town and offers audio-visual tours on the battle itself. A ten-minute drive from Battle leads to Hastings, a popular seaside resort with many attractions that are sure to keep everyone entertained and amused. Camber Sands beach is also only 10 minutes away. Shop and pub 1 mile. Utility with butler sink. Two twin bedrooms (one in roundel), one with table tennis. Large shower room with walk-in power shower, twin wash basins (in roundel) and toilet. First floor: Spacious living/dining room with sofa bed (for alternative sleeping only) and well-equipped kitchen area. Double bedroom (in roundel) with 6ft canopy bed. Double bedroom. Bathroom with roll-top claw-foot bath, shower attachment and toilet.
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Sleeps 6
Weekly prices from £900 to £ 1299
Self catering accommodation in Ottinge sleeps 6.
Features include: • Short Breaks • Pub nearby • Detached • Games Room • Sleeps 6
Accommodation overview: This beautifully restored Grade II listed thatched barn dating back 300 years, has been divided into two beamed holiday cottages equipped to a very high standard which reside in the grounds of the owners’ 500-year-old home Boyke Manor, where the great grandfather of Edward Elgar once lived, situated in the unspoilt Elham Valley, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Activities in the area include walking, horse riding, cycling, wildlife viewing, golf, beaches and art and crafts to name a few. Canterbury, great for shopping and sightseeing, and Dover, ideal for day trips to France, are both 20 minutes away. There is a fast train link to London (55 minutes). Shops ½ mile, pub 1 mile.
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Sleeps 8
Weekly prices from £1300
Self catering accommodation in Deal sleeps 8.
Features include: • Short Breaks • Pets allowed • Fishing nearby • Pub nearby • Games Room • Sleeps 8
Accommodation overview: This stunning and beautifully furnished holiday home set at one end of a beach front terrace in Deal’s beautiful conservation area provides spacious and elegant accommodation over three floors, with spectacular sea views. The first floor sitting room, with its bay window, makes the most of the elevated views towards the Goodwin Sands and the French coastline. On the ground floor there is a family/games room with double doors opening onto a large eat-in kitchen. All the bedrooms are light and sea-facing. There is a wide selection of restaurants, cafés, pubs, an excellent fish and chip shop and many lovely shops all within walking distance of the house. Don’t miss Deal, Walmer and Dover castles, the medieval port of Sandwich and Canterbury with its historic cathedral. There are many coastal and local walks to suit all the family, including the famous white cliffs. Bicycles can be rented within walking distance of the property. Fishing (both sea and lake), golf - three local courses, or day trips to France or London are all possibilities. The house is also within walking distance of the railway station and bus routes. Shops 200 yards, pub 50 yards. Spacious, beamed, well-equipped kitchen/dining room with wooden floor. Family/games room with TV. Utility room. Separate toilet. First floor: Spacious living room with sea view. Double bedroom. Single bedroom. Bathroom with shower attachment and toilet. Second floor: Double bedroom with en-suite shower room with double shower cubicle, toilet and sea views. Twin bedroom with additional single bed (for +1).
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Sleeps 8
Weekly prices from £1300
Self catering accommodation in Kennington sleeps 8.
Features include: • Short Breaks • Pets allowed • Golf nearby • Pub nearby • Detached • Games Room • Sleeps 8
Accommodation overview: Nestling down a quiet country lane, in a rural setting just 10 miles from Canterbury and 10 miles from beaches at Hythe is this attractive stylish Grade II listed detached family holiday home built around 1756. Retaining much of its original charm and character, accessed via a shared drive, Culvers provides generous accommodation for a family or group get together with full use of wood-burning stove, making it cosy in the winter or enjoy a glass of wine on the sunny terrace in the summer which adjoins the owner’s grounds which guests are welcome to use. A perfect base for exploring this verdant part of the British Isles, with easy access to Leeds Castle, Sissinghurst Gardens, Tenterden Steam Railway, Ashford Museum, Biddenden Vineyards and for those that enjoy shopping - Bluewater is easily reached and a bargain can be had at the local designer outlet - McArthur Glenn. Golf, fishing, riding and tennis all available within a 5-mile radius. Bring a passport for a day trip to France or Belgium. Shop 200 yards, pub 1/3 mile. Ground floor: Living room with wood-burning stove. Dining room with wood-burning stove and wooden floor. Well-equipped kitchen with breakfast bar, gas Aga, electric oven and gas hob. Utility. Games room. Separate toilet. First floor: Four double bedrooms; two with 5ft bed, one with en-suite bathroom, over-bath shower and toilet. Bathroom with separate shower cubicle and toilet. All bedrooms with TV.
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