The Cottage, Oxborough, Norfolk

Tel. 01366 328946 or 01223 740444
e-mail bas@flora-garden-tours.co.uk

The cottage is not currently available.

The House

The Cottage, built in the early 19th century has just been fully modernised and furnished to a high standard. The newly fitted dining kitchen contains an electric cooker, large fridge, dishwasher, washer/dryer and microwave. It sleeps 6-7 people in three bedrooms- one double, one with 3 foot bunk beds and one family room with a superior double sofa bed and a folding single bed. Oil fired central heating keeps the whole cottage warm whilst an open fire adds old fashioned colour and comfort in the Georgian sitting room with its original brick floor and shuttered windows. There are also two T.V.s and a telephone. The English Tourist Board have awarded it three stars.

The Situation

It is essential to have an O.S. map to find the cottage because its huge charm lies in its rural seclusion near the River Wissey. The access, however, is perfectly sound if a little bumpy.

The Nature

The Cottage is an idyllic retreat for nature lovers, painters and writers. It is perched on an outlying mound of Breckland sand, surrounded by an acre of wild garden in which rabbits, hares, deer, mice, moles and a huge number of bird species, abound. There are regularly five different species of tits and often woodpeckers on the peanut feeder. We even have a barn owl!

The Possibilities

There are bicycles for your use in the shed, fishing in the river, a swimming bath at Downham Market and a nine hole golf course at Swaffham. Bird watchers, in addition to a comfortable hide at the kitchen window, can visit the Oxborough wood nature reserve, the lakes at Cockley Cley and Narborough and the new RSPB site at Lakenheath Fen.

The National Trust's magnificent 15th century moated manor of Oxburgh Hall is just fields away. The next village, Gooderstone, has water gardens and there is a reconstructed Iceni village at Cockley Cley. A little further away are the priory and the castle at Castle Acre, stately homes, nature reserves, butterfly centres and a zoo and country park. The historic town of Kings Lynn is only 15 miles away and Ely a little further.

The Price

The cottage is not currently available.