many people have reviewed this house and have given it a 5-Star-Rating. Not us. From the outside look, it is a really lovely and beautiful house. It's setting is ok, in the middle between two villages and within easy reach of the A25.
But... within easy reach also means the permanent noise from the A25. To avoid the noise in the front bedroom, the windowes are sealed. Also in the kitchen. In other words, neither in the bedroom, nor in the kitchen the windows can be opened. Especially in the bedroom, sleeping in very unconfortable with weather as nice as this year and no chance of airing or sleeping with a mild breeze.
Also a smaller bedroom, which leads to the 2nd bathroom can not be aired, alas no airing there. And no cupbord to hang up your clothes. Only a sofa to stapel them on.
The kitchen is equipped with exactly 6 items of knives, forks, plates and dinner plates. Either you wash your dishes after every meal or have the dishwasher running half empty every day. But be careful with that, we had the exact number of dishwascher tabs for our stay. So don't waste one! Or of cause, only take one meal a day.
The glasses and cups are not matching and having wine for 5 people -for which the house is set- is impossible, only 4 unmatching glasses. Same with pint glasses by the way.
The second bedroom with the en suite bathroom has a bed so small, it will test your marriage and there are only 4 places to sit in the living room.
So after all, yes the house looks very nice and is well kept, although it was not ready on our arrival day. The deck by the Koi pond is a perfect spot to sit in the evenings. But all that only from the outside! The interior was very poor. It was just the essentually needed and not a single bit more.
A proper tablecloth, not a wax one, matching glasses, enough plates to have breakfast and some scones in the afternoon, 5 wine glasses for 5 adults and also 5 beer glasses. This and windows, that can be opend would have made it a wonderful stay. But as it was, it was stuffy bedrooms, a lot of washing up and everyday tossing a coin, who was to drink what.
Disappointing compared to all the houses, we hat rented before. It was all only small thinmgs, but those small things make the difference between average rating and 5-Star rating.