2 Bedroom (Sleeps 4) Cottage in Hamsterley, Bishop Auckland

Description

For a quick look at the cottages see our webpage edgeknollfarm.co.uk and have a look at the "Fly Through" tour where you can examine everything from the carpets to the lightbulbs as well as the surrounding buildings and area.
Check out the surrounding area by searching Google Earth for Edge Knoll Holiday Cottages. Click on pedestrian view, follow the blue dots and have yourself a tour of the cottage and surrounding area. Approached by a leafy 1 km unsurfaced farm road the two cottages and the owners' house are 1 km from the nearest neighbour but within sight of the A68 Edinburgh to York road
Witton View Cottage is a modern conversion from a 17th Century Milking Byre. Fully equipped for a group of four people with a cot in the main bedroom for that extra baby. It is one of the red pan tiled buildings in the tour described above. The Witton View page on our website shows which of the buildings is Witton View.
The cottage is set in a leafy mature planted courtyard which is ideal for observing the birdlife. Swallows return every year, as they have probably done for centuries, to nest and have their chicks in the buildings forming the courtyard.
The kitchen is spacious and usually is the meeting place for your group. It is fitted with a full family oven with four hob stove top, a six ft family sized fridge freezer, washing machine/dryer, dishwasher, microwave and all the pots, pans crockery and cutlery you will need for a group of four. A high chair is provided for the little one. Cleaning materials and a starter pack of coffee, tea, sugar and Long Life milk. enough to get you started after your trip to the cottage.
The bathroom/toilet is roomy and has electrically heated hot water for the handbasin and bath with a shower over.
The living room has comfortable seating, Freeview TV and is spacious and well lit from the large Arched window looking out into the plant filled Courtyard. A small arrow slit window opposite the arched window looks out over open fields.
The main bedroom has a double bed and a cot, a wardrobe and chest of drawers ample storage for you stay, the window in this bedroom looks out onto a patio and open fields. Ideal for that al fresco breakfast or to carry on your bird spotting at any time of day. Deer, badgers, rabbit and hares are seen regularly from the patio. Barn owls (we have four currently nesting around the cottages) Tawney Owls and over eighty other birds have been recorded around Edge Knoll Farm.
The patio is equipped with garden furniture table and four chairs.
The Second Bedroom has twin single beds, a wardrobe and chest of drawers ample storage for your stay in Witton View Cottage. The bedroom window looks out over open fields and is a great place for wildlife watching.
The cottage has oil fired central heating throughout, and electrically heated hot water for the kitchen and bathroom. The shower is a mains pressure and the hot water tank is ample for a group of four.
There parking for two cars and access to a 2.5Kw car charging three point exterior plug. The power used for car charging is metered and charged for at the end of your stay.
The cottages and owner's house share the same courtyard. Our next neighbours are a half a mile away.
Walking Holidays from the cottages start outside the gate and you can choose from a leisurely walk to a forty mile hike leaving your car behind. Edge Knoll Farm sits astride The Wear Valley Way a long distance Hike from Killhope Lead Mine Museum in the West to the beach at Sunderland in the East, roughly following the course of the River Wear from source to sea. There are many shorter walks around the area. from the Forest at Hamsterley to the Moors and Dales of County Durham.
Do not miss the largest waterfall in England at High Force, Beamish open Air Museum, Durham with its Castle and Cathedral, Raby Castle with its new attractions, Kynren Spectacular with its cast of over a thousand, telling the history of the North, Hall Hill Farm to really tire the kids out and many many more to keep you occupied.
Or do what I do and just sit back and enjoy the place with a good book and a glass of wine.
There are drawers full of information leaflets for you to plan your days. Or just ask Michael Edmonds, Graham or Janine for recommendations to suit your tastes. The area has good pubs and restaurants serving everything from Cordon Blue to cafe cooking with every level between.

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