Ashmere

Estate open

Plan a visit

Stay

Four places, and the park after everyone has gone.

The best hour here is between six and seven, when the gates shut and the light comes flat across the west park. Staying is the only way to get it.

01

The Gardener's House

In the walled garden

Two bedrooms inside the garden wall, which means you are locked in with the vegetables after six when the gate is shut. Warm, thick-walled and very quiet.

  • Inside the walled garden
  • Wood burner
  • Kitchen garden access
  • Dogs welcome

Ask about The Gardener's House

Sleeps
4
Bedrooms
2
From
£210 a night
Minimum
Two nights
02

East Lodge

At the park gate

A one-bedroom gatehouse at the end of the lime avenue. Small, round, and slightly absurd, which is the point of a lodge.

  • One bedroom
  • Log fire
  • Ten minutes' walk to the house
  • No parking at the door

Ask about East Lodge

Sleeps
2
Bedrooms
1
From
£165 a night
Minimum
Two nights
03

The Old Dairy

Beside the farmyard

Three bedrooms in the converted dairy, with the original slate slabs still down in the hall. Close enough to the farm to be woken by it.

  • Three bedrooms
  • Slate floors
  • Farmyard on the doorstep
  • Sleeps six

Ask about The Old Dairy

Sleeps
6
Bedrooms
3
From
£340 a night
Minimum
Two nights
04

The North Wing

In the house itself

Four bedrooms in the house, with your own stair and your own door onto the terrace. Taken whole, and not let while the house is open to visitors.

  • Inside the main house
  • Private terrace door
  • Four bedrooms
  • Whole-wing only

Ask about The North Wing

Sleeps
8
Bedrooms
4
From
£780 a night
Minimum
Two nights

In every letting

What comes as standard.

  • Free run of the gardens and park outside opening hours
  • Breakfast things in, from the farm and the walled garden
  • Wood for the fire, cut on the estate and properly seasoned
  • No television anywhere; a decent radio in each
  • Parking at the estate yard, a short walk from each door
  • Two nights minimum, three over bank holidays