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Carden Green Cottage - South Cheshire Brassey’s Contract Cottage - South Cheshire Church House - Eskdale, Cumbria Church Gates - Cumwhitton, Eden Valley ‘‘ ‘‘ ‘‘ An exceptional cottage, if only all holiday cottages were as luxurious, this one has spoilt us for the future! Outstanding Period Holiday Cottages Carden Historic Cottages are a handful of luxury, privately owned and cherished period holiday retreats in wonderful locations, with lovingly tended gardens. Each one is elegantly furnished with beautiful antique pieces and luxuriously finished using the very best of British products. Our holiday cottages are open all year round and we welcome visitors for one week or two week stays, plus short breaks depending on availability and time of year. Each of our gorgeous cottages has been awarded five stars by Visit England. Lovingly Restored Country Cottages Provide A Five Star Holiday Experience A vision to create her own dream cottage home turned into a successful business venture for Didy Morgan, who now lets out four historic cottages to holidaymakers. Didy began restoring her first cottage, a 300-year-old timberframed wattle and daub dwelling in Edge, near Malpas, Cheshire, in 1997. “It was going to be my home, a cottage with a paddock and a stable. It was my dream,” said Didy of Brassey’s Contract Cottage. She began restoring the building as fast as her budget permitted, doing much of the excavation herself, by hand, using traditional methods. When Didy eventually moved out of the cottage into her family home, she couldn’t bear to part with the rustic building she’d so lovingly rebuilt. So three years ago, she launched the three-bedroom, two-bathroom cottage as a holiday let. Brassey’s is as snug as a tea cosy, with heating under the original tiles downstairs and a wood-burning stove and is available to anyone who fancies a rustic break in the Cheshire countryside. It has its own enclosed garden with orchard, pond and wild flower meadow. The cottage is now one of four immaculately restored and comfortably furnished getaways Didy lets out to holiday makers in Cheshire and the Lake District as part of her Carden Historic Cottages business. All have been awarded the highly coveted five stars by Visit England. There’s also Church House, an 18th-century farmhouse in Eskdale; Carden Green Cottage, a fully restored mid-Victorian semi-detached country cottage that was originally part of the Carden Estate, in Carden, Cheshire, and Church Gates, a beautiful detached sandstone cottage in the Cumbrian village of Cumwhitton. To book a short break at one of the exquisite country cottages in the Carden Historic Cottages portfolio visit: We don’t confuse historic with basic www.cardenhistoriccottages.com For more information or to make a booking, please visit: Tel: 01829 782800 Tel: 01829 782800 [email protected] [email protected] cardenhistoriccottages.com