At Cotterill Farm we have five non-smoking and pet-free holiday cottages for rental as self-catering (vacation rental) accommodation. Three cottages are for four person occupancy, one, a new barn conversion all on the ground floor is for three person occupancy and one, a particularly spacious one is for two person occupancy. One of the four person cottages has two double bedrooms, making it particularly suited for two couples.
The cottages are classified by the English Tourist Board as 4 Stars but we do not rest on our laurels, we are constantly looking to up-grade and improve both the cottages and the supplementary services we provide. They ALL have colour TV with Freeview Sky, (four of the cottages have two tvs and two cottages have full Sky film and sports programmes) dishwashers, videos, dvds, microwaves, radios, hair dryers and all other facilities appropriate to a high quality conversion. There is also a wireless broadband facility . Standards of housekeeping are considered to be second to none
The cottages are superbly situated very close to the beautiful valley of Dovedale in a lovely part of the Peak District National Park, between the highly acclaimed village of Hartington and its smaller neighbour, Biggin-by-Hartington. We are extremely well placed for most of the major tourist attractions of the area, such as Chatsworth House, Haddon Hall, Castleton Caverns, the Dove and Manifold Valleys, plus the attractive local towns of Buxton, Ashbourne, Bakewell and Leek. There is excellent walking from the doorstep. There is a network of quiet country lanes in the immediate vicinity, making our cotttages a superb base for cycling but in addition there are three cycle trails, of average 17 miles length, within 3 miles, one being accessible only a mile away.
Allthough most of our bookings between March and October, start on a saturday and are for a week long duration, we also take short breaks and bookings that start on days other than a saturday..
Cotterill Farm Cottages at Biggin by Hartington | 
Cotterill Farm Cottages at Biggin by Hartington
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The cottages
More details , photographs and a visual tour of the cottages as well as informaton about the location is available on our own website www.cotterillfarm.co.uk
The Dairy - a Cottage for Two People
This really spacious cottage has a large sized bathroom with Italian floor tiles, containing five piece suite (separate shower cubicle and bidet), and a similarly well equipped kitchen. Above these two rooms is a good sized galleried bedroom, which overlooks a large open plan lounge (twenty feet by twenty feet), rising to the rafters.
This lounge has polished stone flags on the floor; a log burner stands on a stone plinth and is a focal feature in the middle of the room. Some of the stone walls are exposed, as are the extensive wood beams. The cottage benefits from central heating
The tastefully co-ordinated furniture and furnishings are of an extremely high standard. As you would expect of a cottage of this quality, there is a large tv, video dvd and full sky programmes (including the film and sports package). There is a second tv in the bedroom.
This has often been described by our guests as being a 'second honeymoon cottage'. There is a private patio area in front of the cottage with superb views, similar in fact to that on the aerial view above.
Dairy cottage at Biggin by Hartington | 
Dale View Cottage at Biggoin by Hartington
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Dale View - Four Person Cottages
So named because of the views of the surrounding dales. This cottage has an upstairs lounge (featuring a substantial old exposed beam seen on picture below - the rest of the items in this picture have changed and been heavily upgraded, but the beam remains the same!) and kitchen area to take advantage of the views. Downstairs are two double bedrooms, making this cottage particularly suited for two couples.
The shower room is also on the ground floor. There are two means of entry and exit, on the ground floor or up attractive external stone steps to the living area (with of course an internal flight of stairs as well). A second TV in one of the bedrooms supplements the flat screeen tv on the first floor. Some guests occasionally choose to sit out in the early evening sun on the paved area at the top of the outside stone steps using it similar to a private patio area. The supplementary log effect heater adds to the superb atmosphere of this cottage
Liffs Cottage
So named because of the view of Liffs Hill two miles away.
This cottage, like its adjoining neighbour, Dale View, fronts on to a grassed area and beyond are fields, dales and rolling hills, (accessible via a squeeze stile near the adjacent off road-parking area).
This cottage also has a partly exposed old beam has the more conventional layout of lounge/kitchen on the ground floor and the two bedrooms and a fully equipped bathroom and shower on the first floor. Again, there is a second TV in the twin bedroom.
Liffs Cottage
The Milking Parlour - a 3-person cottage
This is the ground floor of a barn converted in 2006, - upstairs is another letting unit but guests should have no need to worry about noise transmission, as we have comfortably exceeded what are in any event the latest very strict building control noise transmission requirements with the installation of an independantly hanging ceiling and a false floor.
The Milking Parlour has two bedrooms, one double and one single, a decent sized shower room/wet room, (not with a shower cubicle but you walk into the shower area, which is seperated from the rest of the room by glass blocks, giving far more room for manoevering). This is en-suite to both bedrooms - in other words there are two doors into the shower room.
The living area is extremely comfortable and and has as a focal point a sympathetic log effect stove (not the old fashioned type that were less sympathetic).
Being our latest conversion the Milking Parlour has just that much higher specificiations, such as stone worktops, and central heating, in addition to the specification of the other cottages The internal picture above does not do the Milking Parlour justice, having been taken with a wide angle lens, it reduces the size of the room.This converted barn is located just 15 yards from the other cottages and in a way this barn forms the final part of the courtyard. Adjacent to the Milking Parlour is very large grassed area shared with the other cottages.
The Milking Parlour is the ground floor of this former barn. | 
The Lounge of the Milking Parlour
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Further Information
We have a small wood and just 12 acres of pasture land. On two of the fields our two ponesand a few sheep graze. Our nine hens also have the run of a three acre field! A third field is for hay, and the fourth is a wild flower meadow. These four fields are almost totally surrounded by Biggin Dale which is a nature reserve managed by English Nature. A footpath runs through the reserve and after just over a mile it reaches the famous River Dove at Wolfscote Dale.
For more information, photographs , visual tour and availability as well as current special offers please visit our website at www.cotterillfarm.co.uk or
Call 0800 247 1379 ( between 8.30a.m. and 10.00p.m.) with your requirements
