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Downside House
“Spacious accommodation in an ideal location.” - VisitEngland Assessor
Chilcompton, Somerset
Our Inspector's view
‘The Garden Rooms’ at Downside House has a spacious and beautiful open-plan living indoor/outdoor space. It can accommodate up to four guests plus there's a cot, making it a great place for those with very young children. It's on one level so it's easy access for all, and there's an outside area with plenty of seating. The two bedrooms are well sized and offer comfortable beds, while the bathroom has a walk-in rain shower and separate roll-top bath. Well placed between Bath and Wells and set in a village with dining options and a local shop.
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- Total units: 2
- Open all year
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About the area
Discover Somerset
Somerset means ‘summer pastures’ – appropriate given that so much of this county remains rural and unspoiled. Ever popular areas to visit are the limestone and red sandstone Mendip Hills rising to over 1,000 feet, and by complete contrast, to the south and southwest, the flat landscape of the Somerset Levels. Descend to the Somerset Levels, an evocative lowland landscape that was the setting for the Battle of Sedgemoor in 1685. In the depths of winter this is a desolate place and famously prone to extensive flooding. There is also a palpable sense of the distant past among these fields and scattered communities. It is claimed that Alfred the Great retreated here after his defeat by the Danes.
Away from the flat country are the Quantocks, once the haunt of poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. The Quantocks are noted for their gentle slopes, heather-covered moorland expanses and red deer. From the summit, the Bristol Channel is visible where it meets the Severn Estuary. So much of this hilly landscape has a timeless quality about it and large areas have hardly changed since Coleridge and Wordsworth’s day.
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