Wychwood lies opposite Saratoga in the courtyard, between Goodwood and Newmarket; it is bathed in light from east and west, and has a terrace off the drawing room, which looks down along the wisteria and apple tunnel. Like all of our cottages, it holds the Five Star Gold Award for Luxury Self-Catering in the UK.
Owing to the fall of the land across the garden, you can sit alongside the top of the wisteria and apple arches, and pick an apple with an outstretched hand. It’s a lovely perspective, and there are steps down to ground level if you want to stroll round the garden.
When you walk in from the courtyard, you find yourself in a large, comfortable kitchen with a Cotswold fossil stone floor and grey-green Shaker units. There’s a Belfast sink, a pine dish-rack, and floor to ceiling cupboards. It’s a room where you can imagine dinner stretching out very happily until midnight, and equally well providing the setting for a noisy, lively family lunch.
Double doors open into a long, light, airy drawing room lit by windows on both sides and the French doors onto the terrace. At the far end is a golden Cotswold stone fireplace, flanked by bookshelves: under one is a cupboard with games and under the other a stack of logs for long fire-lit evenings. A mirrored oka coffee table stands between the fireplace and the down-cushioned terracotta sofa; on the left is a speckled red and cream chair, an embroidered rug, and on the right a beautiful Victorian spoon-back chair. The walls are painted a cool grey and the curtains are olive and buff striped. A red lacquered antique mirror over the console table to the right of the sofa reflects the view of the terrace and adds to the inside/outside feel of the room.
