Goodwood is on the right-hand side of the courtyard as you go in, and is one of the two cottages built originally for the stable grooms. It is warm, inviting and cosy, without being either cramped or twee.
The front door opens into a little lobby; off it, opposite, is the utility room/downstairs loo, and on the right, the kitchen, presided over by a large stuffed trout over the sink. The walls are pale green, there are deliciously creamy flagstone tiles on the floor and the curtains are off white. There’s a sturdy pine table, big enough for snacks and informal meals, and all the machines and gadgets you could want. The worktops are granite and there’s a Belfast sink. Opening out of the kitchen are the stairs leading to the first floor, and the 19′ square foot drawing-room/dining-room.
It’s painted a cool off-white, with thick ochre curtains at its four windows. Fabrics are olive green, yellow and off-white; Colefax and Fowler velvet on one of the chairs, a creamy/sand coloured sofa, a lime green buttoned high backed Victorian two seater, and pink and greens on the kilim in front of the open fire. To the right is a painted bookcase, and on the left of the room, by the circular mahogany pedestal dining-table, an antique Irish dresser is packed with Masons Ironstone dishes. There’s also a large, handsome desk.
Opposite the fireplace, a door opens into a trellised passage in the courtyard: down some steps and you are in the garden.
At one end of the corridor above is the master bedroom, its handsome mahogany four-poster hung in white. The ensuite shower-room is white-tiled from floor to ceiling and has a vast washstand running its entire length around the enormous wall-to-wall mirror.
