Surrey Homes | SH42 | April 2018 | Garden supplement inside

This page: Looking from the East facing bedroom onto the landing with the ladder steps going up to the attic bedroom
and sea and… an MOD firing range (note to would-be
guests: if the proximity of barbed wire and the occasional
rat-a-tat of working firearms scares you more than it
thrills you then this may not be your kind of place).
The cottage’s central staircase leaves walls free for the
windows and many of the rooms are double aspect.
Even with the predominantly white palette, it’s still a
surprisingly warm and welcoming space, even in winter.
There are five spacious bedrooms which sleep eleven when
the house is full, making it affordable for big groups of
friends or families at a rate starting from £300 per night.
Two of the bedrooms are on the lower ground floor
and are, again, surprisingly light with, I note, windows
perfectly positioned for smaller guests to clamber in
and out of very easily during games of hide-and-seek
— “I suspect there is a lot of that,” agrees Marta.
There are two further bedrooms and a family bathroom
on the first floor, while the bedroom for which I imagine
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