Bruern Holiday Cottages: A cosy Cotswolds getaway perfect for a winter weekend – January 2018

Bruern Holiday Cottages are the perfect place to spend a winter weekend curled up by the fire, discovers Victoria Marston.

When I was invited to spend a weekend at luxury self-catering Bruern Holiday Cottages, I was full of grand plans for exploring the local countryside. Located just half an hour from Chipping Norton, it’s the perfect base for visiting Cotswolds hotspots such as Soho Farmhouse and Daylesford.

However, the moment I opened the sage-green front door to Wychwood cottage and saw its farmhouse-style kitchen, the table set for tea and bearing a lemon-drizzle cake, I knew it would be a struggle to leave. With a fridge bursting with complimentary local sausages, bacon, cheese and Champagne plus appointments for a massage and facial at the discreet onsite spa, I barely did.

With a clutch of them set in a splendid horseshoe of honey-coloured stone around a manicured lawn, the cottages are the former stables, hayloft, bothy and mill to Bruern Abbey, located just across the lane.

Each has its own style and character, ranging from one bedroom all the way up to five, but they are all equally cosy and homely, with club fenders, four-poster beds, marble butcher’s blocks, velvet armchairs and snazzy wallpaper galore.

This is the place to play ‘maybe I’ll abandon my real life and set up home in an idyllic countryside cottage’. If you already live in an idyllic countryside cottage, well — you’ll feel right at home.

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