HIGHGROVE BARNS WERE ONE OF THE FEW SELF CATERING/SELF CONTAINED ACCOMMODATION PROVIDERS TO BE APPOINTED TO HOUSE KEY WORKERS BEFORE LOCKDOWN AND SO ADOPTED THE NHS GUIDELINES AND STRICT CLEANING AND SANITISING PRACTISES AS A STAYS FOR HEROES PROVIDER. THEY CURRENTLY LEAVE 24 HOURS BETWEEN BOOKINGS AND ADHERE TO NO DIRECT CONTACT WITH THEIR GUESTS.
A right royal welcome awaits you at Highgrove Barns, Craven Arms. Offering 2 self catering cottages for holiday rental.
The Dairy and The Byre, recently converted, luxury 18th century barns adjoining the owners house. The accommodation is on the ground floor with only shallow steps to the front doors.
The cottages, each with one double bedroom/en-suite shower room, are south facing on a level site with a large parking area and secure garden. Under a mellow Welsh slate roof they have waney edged timber in the local style, exposed stone walls, vaulted ceilings with many original oak beams, oak kitchen units, slate floors in the living areas and carpeted bedrooms.
Separate patios with Coalbrookdale furniture overlook the cottage garden and the surrounding countryside.
The Byre (sleeps 2 + cot + childs bed) looks out over the whole twenty mile length of Wenlock Edge from the Corvedale nearly to Ironbridge with a splendid view of Sir Benjamin Flounders folly once owned by the actress Julie Christie and recently fully restored.
The Dairy (sleeps 2 + cot) has views over the former farmyard and beyond over Stokesay to Whitcliffe and the Mortimer Forest.
Highgrove Barns, is surrounded by an area of outstanding natural beauty (AONB) in an elevated position halfway between Ludlow and Church Stretton and 1 mile from Craven Arms.
The unsurpassable 12th Century fortified manor house of Stokesay Castle is close by and Craven Arms, one mile away is home to South Shropshires award winning Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre and the Land of Lost Content Museum. It also has a supermarket, shops, post office and bank and a main line railway station on the Manchester to Cardiff route.
BBC TV's Victorian Farm location is just a few miles to the north and our free entry destination, Ironbridge Gorge with it is ten museums is eastwards along Wenlock Edge.
Much Wenlock, a scenic country drive away, was recently named by Sunday Times and Savills Estate Agents, as one of the best British villages to live in.
Accommodation Amenities
- Children Welcome
- Parking
- WiFi
Distances are as the crow flies, and not by road. Distances via roads will be longer.
