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Norfolk self catering holiday cottage for 8
Providence House, Thornage, Norfolk
Sleeps 8 
"This house is straight out of the pages of Homes & Gardens – old floorboards, stylish furniture and vintage wallpaper...” The Observer: Top 10 Super Cottages.
About the property
1 king, 1 super-king, 1 small double, 1 twin/superking, 2 bathrooms, 1 en-suite bathroom
This charming historic farmhouse near Holt is owned by designers and as you might hope, it’s wonderfully renovated and tastefully decorated with a pallete of gorgeous colours. Inside you’ll find inspiring spaces, colourful textiles, high ceilings, and stylish furniture. Outside is a picturesque south-facing terrace and a landscaped garden for you to enjoy.
The house is set out on three floors. On the ground floor there’s a large kitchen/dining room – ideal for family gatherings and a living room, with open fires in both rooms. On the first floor you’ll find two bedrooms (1 king, 1 super-king), an en-suite and a bathroom. The second floor has two bedrooms (a small double and a second room that can either be arranged as a twin or a super-king) and a bathroom. Outside there’s a large terrace, a pretty garden beyond, and parking. There’s an organic vegetable garden and you are welcome to pick your own fruit and vegetables during your stay.
The accommodation
Ground floor:
The magnificent old front door leads to hallway with doors to living room and kitchen and stairs to the first floor.
Living room: Here you’ll find three sofas, an open fire and shelves full of good books. There’s a flat-screen TV, a DVD player, a broadband computer plus WiFi access. Lining the walls is vintage wallpaper by American design house Brunschwig & Fils, and the floor has old floorboards with a unique rug that was especially designed for the room.
Kitchen/dining room: This large room has a bleached oak table and eight chairs, a two-seater sofa by a lovely open fire, a double Belfast sink, a range cooker and a stainless steel food preparation island. There’s a pantry full of plates and glasses, a washing machine/tumble dryer, a dishwasher and a fridge-freezer.
First floor:
Wide stairs from the ground floor hallway lead up to a first floor landing with doors to bedrooms and bathroom and further stairs to the second floor.
Bedroom 1: This large room with a super-king size bed has two large sash windows with beautiful views across the sunny garden. There’s a sofa, bedside tables, a clothes store and an electric fan above the bed for warm summer nights.
En-suite to Bedroom 1: A step leads up to a large bathroom where you’ll find an cast-iron bath with mahogany bath surround, a large vintage hand basin, a w.c, more stylish Brunschwig & Fils wallpaper, and double cupboards with hanging storage for clothes.
Bedroom 2, ‘The Sewing Room’: This spacious room has a king-size bed, bedside tables, a wardrobe, a wicker chair and a lovely window seat with views of the garden. This delightful room has an antique cabinet full of beautifully arranged remnants of fabric, and a wonderful antique ‘Sylko’ display cabinet full of colourful reels of sewing thread.
Bathroom 1: There’s a freestanding bath with a hand-held shower attachment, pretty floral wallpaper, a hand basin, a w.c. and a heated towel rail.
Second floor:
Wide stairs lead up to the second floor into the eaves of the house. Through a door and the bathroom is straight ahead, whilst the further two bedrooms are to left and right.
Bathroom: There’s a w.c., a hand basin, and a bath with a hand-held shower attachment.
Bedroom 3: This lovely room has a wonderful high-pitched ceiling with exposed, limed rafters and trusses. It has a narrow double bed (that’s 4 foot wide, just 6 inches narrower than a standard double), There’s a cupboard with a clothes hanging rail and shelves.
Bedroom 4: This spacious pretty bedroom is up in the eaves, so you may need to bob your head down in places. It has zip-and-link beds that can be arranged either as twin beds or as a super-king bed. There are bedside tables, open clothes hanging space, shelves, a table, chair and small sofa.
Outside:
There’s a Yorkstone sun terrace with a table and chairs, and a large lawned garden surrounded by brick-and-flint walls with a simple practical barbeque. The owners say that you are welcome to pick your own in season organic fruit and vegetables during your stay. There’s a pond in a further area of garden.
About the area:
Providence House is situated in the pretty village of Thornage, close to the quintessential Georgian Norfolk town of Holt where you’ll find a variety of good shops and boutiques including Byfords Delicatessen and Café, Bakers and Larners Department Store (with it’s excellent Food Hall for an excellent selection of wines and organic foods).
Here are our top five tips for exploring the area:
- A visit to Holkham Beach. Walk along the pure white sand to the amazing dunes at Gun Hill for a picnic, then back though the scented pines that hug the coast to the Victoria Hotel for drinks.
- Take the ferry to Blakeney Point (National Trust) to visit a 100 or more basking seals out on the fine sands of the Point (Norfolk’s answer to Cap Cod), also a nationally important home to colonies of seabirds, especially terns, and take a swim in the shallow warm waters.
- Houghton Hall. Go to William Kent’s 18th-C baroque masterpiece, with its sumptuous interiors including the emerald velvet shell bed that fills a huge cube room. Outside tour the gardens revitalised by Highgrove designers, Julian and Isabel Bannerman.
- Fakenham Races. An old-fashioned day out at the local races where studying people is as interesting as studying form.
- Shell Museum, Glandford. A jewel of a seashell collection, the finest in Britain in the oldest purpose-built museum in Norfolk.
What’s included?
All prices include 100% cotton bed linen, towels, heating and electricity, plus a welcome bottle of wine and biscuits to help you get your break off to a relaxing start.
This Norfolk farmhouse is link-detached to a residential barn conversion, and it is equipped with oil-fired central heating throughout. Appliances include a TV, DVD + CD player with Ipod dock, a range hob and ovens and a microwave, a dishwasher, fridge, freezer and combination washing machine/tumble dryer. The house has stone flooring in the kitchen dining room, traditional lino in the bathrooms and whitewashed floorboards and rugs in the rest of the rooms. A travel cot and a high chair are available from the property owners on request at the time of booking.
Restrictions and notes:
Sorry, no smoking, or unaccompanied teenagers permitted at the property. A well-behaved dog is welcome downstairs, on the ground floor . If you wish to bring a dog it must be mentioned at the time of booking on the online booking form.
The second floor has partially sloping ceilings; otherwise there is good head-height throughout. The garden has access to a pond and so we recommend supervising young children.
Tariff
For both weekly and short break prices please visit the online booking calendar.
How to book this property
1. Check availability and price by clicking here. Move your mouse pointer over one of the underlined dates to reveal the prices for breaks starting on that date.
2. Make a provisional booking by clicking on your arrival date, then click on your departure date. You will then be prompted to fill out a booking form. Only dates that are underlined can be selected as arrival and departure dates. For enquiries about other dates please email or call us.
3. How to pay. When you have filled out your booking form you can choose to pay online by credit or debit card or send a cheque. A 25% deposit is requested at the time of your booking. The balance and a £100 returnable good housekeeping deposit (subject to terms and conditions) are due six weeks before your holiday commences. Please note there is a 1.5% charge for credit card payments. There is no charge for debit card or cheque payments.
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For all other enquiries please either email bookings@bestofsuffolk.co.uk or call us on 01728 638962.
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