Description
Superbly situated very close to the beautiful valley of Dovedale in a lovely part of the Peak District National Park, the four cottages are located between the highly acclaimed village of Hartington and its smaller neighbour, Biggin-by-Hartington.
Cotterill Farm is in the heart of the white Peak area of the peak district with the attractive market towns of Buxton, Ashbourne, Bakewell and Leek all 11 miles away at various points of the compass. The NON-working farm consists of 12 acres of land, with two wild flower meadows and is surrounded by a nature reserve through which a footpath leads on its way to the River Dove. There are three cycle trails on average 15 miles length within 3 miles and there is excellent walking from the cottages with numerous footpaths and bridleways heading off in all directions.
Our cottages have consistently achieved the grading of 4 Stars from the English Tourism Council (and under the old grading system 'Highly Commended'), but despite this we have constantly striven to improve our facilities.
Thus we have recently upgraded both the bathroom and the kitchen in each cottage, with the installation of gloss work-tops, halogen cookers (excellent for near instantaneous heat) and real stone granite sinks, adding to the existing solid oak kitchen units. and many more improvements have recently been made to each of the individual cottages.
The Dairy - 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 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 on our home page.
Dale View - 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.
The bedrooms and shower room are on the ground floor. Both bedrooms in this cottage are doubles, rather than twins. 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 double bedrooms supplements the flat screeen tv on the first floor. Some guests occasionally choose to sit out on the paved area at the top of the outside stairs as 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.
The Milking Parlour - This is the ground floor of a barn converted in 2005, - 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.
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