Tom's Barn
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Tom's Barn

 
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Tom’s Barn is our Five Star dog friendly luxury self-catering cottage for two in the Peak National Park.  


 
  • Farmhouse style, Sleeps 2

  • Dogs welcome

  • Galleried bedroom, kingsize bed

  • En suite 2-seater whirlpool bath

  • Log burner, unlimited logs

  • Luxury, peace and quiet in a beautiful setting

  • Dovedale, Chatsworth, Haddon, Tissington, all within 30 minutes

  • Wireless Internet Access

  • FreeSat TV

  • Winter short breaks

Please Note...

  • Tom’s Barn is not suitable for children, but babies (not yet crawling!) are very welcome

  • It is not suitable for anyone with mobility problems

     
 

The kitchen has survived its transformation: the woodwork is painted in Farrow & Ball Hay and the walls in String and it looks really good.

 

We always leave you some fresh flowers, and – during the summer – a jug of herbs from the garden

 

You will find a tea tray laid for your arrival, with homemade cake or biscuits.

 
     
 

The light and airy sitting room is open to the rafters, with our Australian son-in-law’s paintings high on the walls.

 

It has a log burner with all logs supplied and full central heating.

 

The bookcase houses local information, maps, games and novels.

 

We also provide a copy of the Radio Times, Derbyshire Life and the local paper so you can see what’s on.

 

The sitting room is equipped with a flat panel tv, dvd player and mini hifi.

 
 
 
 
     
 
 
       
 

The galleried bedroom has open rafters and roof lights.

 

The kingsized bed has a down and feather mattress topper and top quality bedlinen.

 

There is an easy chair on the balcony.

 

The bedroom also has a heated towel rail by the bathroom door and a remote control TV.

 
 
 
 
       
 

The en suite bathroom has tumbled marble tiles and a delightful two-seater whirlpool bath.

 

We've also just had the bathroom repainted - woodwork in Farrow & Ball Buff and the walls Savage Ground. (F&B do think up some intriguing names...)

 

The unusual bath is up two steps and deeper and cosier than most.

 
 
 
 
       
 

Outside the front door of the barn there is a table and a couple of chairs.

 

It is an ideal spot for enjoying a quiet drink in the evening sun after a long walk.

 

As shown in the photo, there is also an enclosed cottage garden area, with a living willow hedge. There is a picnic table and Weber charcoal barbecue for your own use.

 

Tom's Barn has off road parking.

 
 
 
 
           
 

These floor plans give a rough idea of the layout of Tom's Barn.

 

 

Stop Press!

Tom's Barn is highlighted as one of 'The UK's Best Cottages for Lovers' in the Sunday Telegraph Travel Section on March 30th.

 

Unfortunately the article doesn't give our telephone number or website so we hope intrepid souls will manage to work their way through to Tom's Barn!

 

Lovers are welcome at all stages of their relationship from the starry eyed to the gracefully matured.

 

 
 
 
 

Why Tom?

The previous owner of Orchard Farm was Tom, a well liked village character, but complete stranger to soap, hammer, paintbrush or any home improvements. After years of neglect the house and barns were in an unbelievably awful state.

 

It took us months just simply getting the house and outbuildings reasonably habitable, before we were able to start on the rather more exciting and certainly very rewarding transformation process.

 

It was twenty years before people stopped referring to Orchard Farm as ‘Tom’s place’, hence Tom’s Barn. We now have a grandson, Tom, who at 3 and a half assumes his role to be absentee landlord.

He seems quite happy at present with the way we are running things for him.

 

Tom's Barn is bright, warm, welcoming and spotlessly clean. Yet before we converted it in 1999, it was the most decrepit and cobweb festooned old barn you could imagine, smelling of ancient cows (and probably worse). We have photographs in the barn of the transformation which even we find hard to imagine, now that we have such a bright, warm, dry, cosy place.

 

We have a rolling programme of redecoration and renewals to keep Tom’s Barn fresh as new. Janet, our ‘right hand’ whom many of you know, terrorises any spiders who dare now to set foot, and keeps the place sparkling… We have just (Oct. '07) had the outside woodwork repainted.

 

     

Comments from Tom’s Barn Visitors’ Book 2007 and 2008


"A lovely - and rare - opportunity to luxuriate in a cottage where the dogs feel as welcome as we do. We return to London footsore, well rested and with fond memories of our week in Tom’s Barn."

 

"Much welcomed relaxing weekend. The sound of birdsong and the church bells ringing on Sunday morning was a lovely reminder of village life in the country…"

"Back again for our fourth visit, and love it just as much!"

 

"Best Christmas present ever - forget the holidays abroad!"

 

"What a lovely place! All we wished for and more."

 
 
  "...Loved coming home to a real fire after a long day walking. We felt most welcome, thanks so much."