Late availability

To ensure the widest possible choice of Landmarks we recommend early booking. However, there are still opportunities to enjoy a Landmark over the coming weeks, whether you are looking for a long or short break.

Here is a small selection of buildings currently available. Please contact the Booking Office or consult the Availability List on the web site (which is updated daily) to check availability for other dates or buildings.

(Information correct as of 04 July 2008)

• Monday 7 July for 4 nights
• Friday 11 July for 3 nights
• Monday 14 July for 4 nights
• Friday 18 July for 3 nights

Midweek break - Monday 7 July or 4 nights

Cul na Shee

Saddell, Kintyre, Argyll and Bute

• For up to 4 people
• From 7 July (4 nights)
• £644

Cul-na-Shee, meaning 'nook of peace' in Gaelic, is situated within a minute bay, backed by steep woods on the Saddell Estate. It is reached by a path along the beach, overlooked by no other building and with just the sea and Arran to look at.

For further information please contact the Booking Office.

Knowle Hill

Near Ticknall, Derbyshire

• For up to 5 people
• From 7 July (4 nights)
• £486

The gothic summerhouse and the cottage behind, is all that survives of a most curious house built on the side of a ravine in about 1698. It opens on to a sunny lawn, with a view into the woods beyond.

For further information please contact the Booking Office.

Sackville House

East Grinstead, West Sussex

• For up to 8 people
• From 7 July (4 nights)
• £687

Built in 1520, this house is timber framed and roofed in thick Horsham stone, with views across the valley to the Ashdown Forest from the exceptional garden, originally known as a portland, some 630 feet long.

For further information please contact the Booking Office.

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Weekend break - Friday 11 July for 3 nights

The Ancient House

Clare, Suffolk

• For up to 2 people
• From 11 July (3 nights)
• £551

A picturesque medieval timber-framed building with elaborate pargeting, a distinctive form of vernacular architecture in East Anglia, that bears the date '1473'. Situated in an unspoilt market town, this house incorporates a handsome moulded timber ceiling and elaborately carved oriel windows.

For further information please contact the Booking Office.

The Music Room

Sun Street, Lancaster

• For up to 4 people
• From 11 July (3 nights)
• £404

Built in about 1730, the Music Room it seems, was originally a garden pavilion. The Music Room contains an exceptional Baroque interior and the plasterwork took over 6,000 hours of work to repair.

For further information please contact the Booking Office.

Crownhill Fort

Plymouth, Devon

• For up to 8 people
• From 11 July (3 nights)
• £919

Built in the 1860's to protect Plymouth from attack by land and sea, it is one of only two large works of its kind surviving in good condition in the country. You stay in the Officers' Quarters and have a free run of the Fort once the gates close for the evening.

For further information please contact the Booking Office.

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Midweek break - Monday 14 July for 4 nights

Swiss Cottage

Endsleigh, Near Tavistock, Devon

• For up to 4 people
• From 14 July (4 nights)
• £839

Designed in about 1815 by Jeffrey Wyatville this is an early, and wonderfully well-made, example of the nineteenth-century passion for the Alps. Swiss Cottage is situated within the ornamental gardens of Endsleigh and commands magnificent views of the River Tamar.

For further information please contact the Booking Office.

Ingestre Pavilion

Tixall, Staffordshire

• For up to 6 people
• From 14 July (4 nights)
• £761

The imposing façade of this building dates to 1752 and was nearly all that remained for two centuries. New rooms were constructed in a Classical style for Landmark.

For further information please contact the Booking Office.

Kingswear Castle

Near Dartmouth, Devon

• For up to 6 people
• From 14 July (4 nights)
• £1501

Built in 1502 to support Dartmouth Castle, Kingswear Castle almost stands on the water's edge. From the windows you can look across to Dartmouth; or down the rocky coast and out to sea.

For further information please contact the Booking Office.

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Weekend break - Friday 18 July for 3 nights

St Winifred's Well

Woolston, near Oswestry, Shropshire

• For up to 2 people
• From 18 July (3 nights)
• £511

Freston Tower is a six-storey Tudor folly that looks out over the River Orwell. Built in about 1550, of red brick with a distinctive blue brick diapering pattern, it stands in the grounds of Freston House, just south of Ipswich. There is a single room on each floor.

For further information please contact the Booking Office.

Hole Cottage

Cowden, Kent

• For up to 4 people
• From 18 July (3 nights)
• £847

Hole Cottage is the cross-wing of a high quality late medieval timber-framed hall-house. The building stands in a woodland clearing close to a small stream.

For further information please contact the Booking Office.

Silverton Park Stables

Silverton, Devon

• For up to 14 people
• From 18 July (3 nights)
• £3287

This Grade II listed quadrangular stable block was commissioned in the mid 19th century by the 4th Earl of Egremont. Set within an historic parkland, and built around a sunny courtyard, it is a welcoming and evocative place.

For further information please contact the Booking Office.

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