Country house for rent in the UK?

[schmalex]

It's my wife's 40th in February & I'm looking to rent a large country house around the Cotswolds / South Shropshire areas that sleeps around 10 - 12 people for a long weekend for a bit of a surprise party.

Main requirements are:

• Near(ish) to a pub
• Decent sized grounds
• Near nice countryside for walking
• Georgian / Edwardian style (by that, I mean it needs to have "the look")
• Ideally, an inside pool / recreation room

Budget is pretty flexible.

Does anyone have any recommendations?!

[milk2sugars]

schmalex said:

It's my wife's 40th in February & I'm looking to rent a large country house around the Cotswolds / South Shropshire areas that sleeps around 10 - 12 people for a long weekend for a bit of a surprise party.

Main requirements are:

• Near(ish) to a pub
• Decent sized grounds
• Near nice countryside for walking
• Georgian / Edwardian style (by that, I mean it needs to have "the look")
• Ideally, an inside pool / recreation room

Budget is pretty flexible.

Does anyone have any recommendations?!

Before I pack up for the day I thought I would help you out a bit...

I don't really know a company (letting agent) in that area that caters for Cotswold properties but having a quick look on Holidaylettings, ownersdirect and holiday-rentals.co.uk came up with the following:

http://www.ownersdirect.co.uk/search_advanced.asp?...

http://www.holidaylettings.co.uk/central-england-c...

http://www.holiday-rentals.co.uk/search/refined/un...

Edited by milk2sugars on Wednesday 5th October 19:31

[Bluebarge]

Landmark Trust will tick most of the boxes except the pool bit.

[tomw2000]

My wife's work colleague had this place for a weekend for his 40th earlier this year:

http://www.uniquehomestays.com/unique/details.asp?...

Sarsden Manor. Catering onsite can be arranged and I think he took all his guests to le manior for dinner on the Sat night - I understand it wasn't _that_ far away.

He heavily recommends it.

Might tick some of your boxes?

[schmalex]

Thanks for the suggestions, chaps.

Tomw2000 - that is just the kind of place I'm looking for. Will have a browse round the website.


Cheers

Alex

[milk2sugars]

tomw2000 said:

My wife's work colleague had this place for a weekend for his 40th earlier this year:

http://www.uniquehomestays.com/unique/details.asp?...

Sarsden Manor. Catering onsite can be arranged and I think he took all his guests to le manior for dinner on the Sat night - I understand it wasn't _that_ far away.

He heavily recommends it.

Might tick some of your boxes?

I shall be using that website for my next stay in the UK!