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 2024 below.
We have 81 Landmarks for you...
7 nights
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The Birdhouse was designed in 1783 by the architect James Wyatt in a spectacular natural setting that could serve to define the Picturesque movement. Today, it is a romantic hideaway for two.
- Dogs Allowed
- Yes
- Fire or Stove
- No
- Sleeps
- 2
- 7 nights
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£1,281
equivalent to £91.50 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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£959
equivalent to £68.50 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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£1,134
equivalent to £81.00 per person per night
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Listed Grade II*, the dairy was conceived to represent a tiny Italianate chapel topped with a bell tower, and with four corner pavilions.
- Dogs Allowed
- No
- Fire or Stove
- Yes
- Sleeps
- 2
- 7 nights
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£1,323
equivalent to £94.50 per person per night
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Our restoration of Danescombe Mine was one of the earliest conversions of an industrial building into a house. The result is a wonderful exotic hybrid in a wooded valley leading to the Tamar.
- Dogs Allowed
- Yes
- Fire or Stove
- Yes
- Sleeps
- 2
- 7 nights
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£1,442
equivalent to £103.00 per person per night
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Houghton West Lodge is one of four houses that guard the approaches to Houghton Hall, one of England’s finest Palladian houses and once home to Britain's first Prime Minister.
- Dogs Allowed
- No
- Fire or Stove
- Yes
- Sleeps
- 2
- 7 nights
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£987
equivalent to £70.50 per person per night
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A fine, two-storey Jacobean porch salvaged from a great house once beloved of the poet and playwright John Dryden but now lost.
- Dogs Allowed
- Yes
- Fire or Stove
- Yes
- Sleeps
- 2
- 7 nights
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£973
equivalent to £69.50 per person per night
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We think the Music Room was built in around 1730 as a garden pavilion. The streets of Lancaster grew around it. The Baroque interior alone took 6,000 hours of craft skills to repair.
- Dogs Allowed
- No
- Fire or Stove
- No
- Sleeps
- 2
- 7 nights
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£840
equivalent to £60.00 per person per night
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The tower was built as a folly in 1821 with a pretty sitting room on the first floor. The third floor was added in 1943 by the Germans as an observation point, with views in every direction.
- Dogs Allowed
- No
- Fire or Stove
- No
- Sleeps
- 2
- 7 nights
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£854
equivalent to £61.00 per person per night
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A clock tower overlooking the Exe estuary, ‘like a sleek racing yacht turned through 90 degrees and planted in the beach.’
- Dogs Allowed
- No
- Fire or Stove
- No
- Sleeps
- 2
- 7 nights
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£791
equivalent to £56.50 per person per night
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The Pigsty’s classical design was supposedly inspired by Squire Barry’s travels around the Mediterranean in the 1880s and offers striking views of Robin Hood’s Bay.
- Dogs Allowed
- No
- Fire or Stove
- Yes
- Sleeps
- 2
- 7 nights
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£1,197
equivalent to £85.50 per person per night
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The Summerhouse stands in beautiful woodland on the Shuttleworth Estate. The outstandingly fine brickwork of this foursquare folly is likely to date from the early 18th century.
- Dogs Allowed
- Yes
- Fire or Stove
- Yes
- Sleeps
- 2
- 7 nights
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£1,197
equivalent to £85.50 per person per night
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This beautiful little pavilion has two distinct faces and has a breath-taking panorama. Approached from the wood, this rustic cottage with a thatched roof houses an elegant interior.
- Dogs Allowed
- Yes
- Fire or Stove
- Yes
- Sleeps
- 2
- 7 nights
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£1,281
equivalent to £91.50 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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£1,239
equivalent to £88.50 per person per night
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This is a self-contained flat in the former residence of the Union’s Steward, an important figure in the famous debating society, the Oxford Union, formed in 1823 to encourage free speech.
- Dogs Allowed
- No
- Fire or Stove
- Yes
- Sleeps
- 2
- 7 nights
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£1,260
equivalent to £90.00 per person per night
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