Festive breaks in historic buildings
Surround yourself with history this December and have a festive break to remember. View all of our towers, cottages, forts and castles available for Christmas 2019.
We have 18 Landmarks for you...
7 days
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Deep in the woods sits this octagonal folly – with a real surprise inside. The ceiling and walls of the main room are festooned with shells, while in the basement is a cold plunge pool.
- Dogs Allowed
- No
- Fire or Stove
- Yes
- Sleeps
- 2
- 7 nights
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£911
equivalent to £65.07 per person per night
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The Chapel is a tiny grey granite building in the rural hamlet of Lettaford, a settlement on the edge of Dartmoor that has been lived in since at least 1300.
- Dogs Allowed
- Yes
- Fire or Stove
- Yes
- Sleeps
- 2
- 7 nights
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£723
equivalent to £51.64 per person per night
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This very clever scale model of a French chateau sits on a hill above the River Trent in the middle of the Lincolnshire countryside.
- Dogs Allowed
- No
- Fire or Stove
- Yes
- Sleeps
- 2
- 7 nights
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£949
equivalent to £67.79 per person per night
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A Georgian folly within an outstanding Picturesque garden, the Ruin was built in about 1766. On the edge of a steep wooded gorge, it was one of several buildings scattered across the gardens.
- Dogs Allowed
- No
- Fire or Stove
- Yes
- Sleeps
- 2
- 7 nights
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£964
equivalent to £68.86 per person per night
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This tiny pavilion was a majestic grandstand for the enclosure in front. It is a mature expression in miniature of all that was best in Tudor and Jacobean architecture.
- Dogs Allowed
- No
- Fire or Stove
- No
- Sleeps
- 2
- 7 nights
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£738
equivalent to £52.71 per person per night
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Whiteford Temple is an ornamental granite folly with views towards the Tamar Estuary. It was built in the 18th century for Sir John Call, a military engineer who had made a fortune in India.
- Dogs Allowed
- No
- Fire or Stove
- Yes
- Sleeps
- 2
- 7 nights
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£862
equivalent to £61.57 per person per night
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Brinkburn Mill sits next to the River Coquet at the bottom of a thickly-wooded valley. A mill has been on this site since medieval times, with the present building dating to about 1800.
- Dogs Allowed
- Yes
- Fire or Stove
- Yes
- Sleeps
- 4
- 7 nights
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£1,401
equivalent to £50.04 per person per night
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Situated in the rolling landscape behind Hadrian’s Wall, Causeway House was built in 1770 as a farmhouse. Causeway remains the only house in Northumberland still thatched in heather.
- Dogs Allowed
- Yes
- Fire or Stove
- Yes
- Sleeps
- 2 +2
- 7 nights
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£1,143
equivalent to £40.82 per person per night
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The 18th-century Temple was one of the last additions to Stowe, one of the world’s most famous landscape gardens. The rooms are all circular, with moulded stone pilasters and plaster vaults.
- Dogs Allowed
- Yes
- Fire or Stove
- No
- Sleeps
- 4
- 7 nights
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£1,873
equivalent to £66.89 per person per night
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Once the gardener's house of a manor farm, this light and airy apartment is a unique place to ponder the famous Battle of Waterloo by day and night.
- Dogs Allowed
- No
- Fire or Stove
- No
- Sleeps
- 4
- 7 nights
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£1,604
equivalent to £57.29 per person per night
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The Moulin de la Tuilerie near Paris is best known for being the country retreat of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Most weekends they would entertain celebrities and nobility.
- Dogs Allowed
- Yes
- Fire or Stove
- No
- Sleeps
- 4
- 7 nights
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£1,693
equivalent to £60.46 per person per night
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Villa dei Vescovi is a Renaissance villa nestled in the vineyards and orchards of the Euganean Hills. One of two rooftop apartments, with views of the elegant orchards.
- Dogs Allowed
- No
- Fire or Stove
- No
- Sleeps
- 4
- 7 nights
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£998
equivalent to £35.64 per person per night
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Nearly a million bricks were used in the construction of this Martello Tower; the largest and most northerly of a chain of towers put up to counter the threat of Napoleon.
- Dogs Allowed
- Yes
- Fire or Stove
- Yes
- Sleeps
- 4
- 7 nights
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£1,940
equivalent to £69.29 per person per night
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Deep in the Surrey countryside stands a gatehouse built in the 19th century by one of this country’s most influential and talented architects, A W N Pugin.
- Dogs Allowed
- No
- Fire or Stove
- Yes
- Sleeps
- 4
- 7 nights
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£1,308
equivalent to £46.71 per person per night
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This is an extraordinary Jacobean building whose fine upper room opens onto a broad terrace overlooking the remains of Old Campden House.
- Dogs Allowed
- No
- Fire or Stove
- Yes
- Sleeps
- 4 +2
- 7 nights
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£1,538
equivalent to £36.62 per person per night
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