Monks Retreat

These three delightful newly restored, spacious, beamed cottages standing at 900 feet above sea level overlooking some of the most spectacular scenery in the Peak National Park.
Situated where Monks Dale meets Millers Dale, a conservation area of outstanding natural beauty with a network of paths directly from the door. Our farm trail leads to a ridge walk with dramatic views of seven dales.
There are extensive terraced gardens to the front of the cottages with elevated viewpoints and quiet corners to sit and relax. The cottages face south so they get the best of the sunshine all day long.

Monks Memories sleeps 2 and is on the right in the photograph. It is single storey having a double bedroom with en suite bathroom with bath and shower over.The fully fitted kitchen has an electric cooker, fridge, microwave etc. and laundry facilities are available in a well equipped communal laundry room. The comfortable sitting room has a digital TV with video player and a dining area with views overlooking the gardens.

The entire cottage has been lovingly restored to maintain its rustic charm while offering all the amenities for modern day comfort with oil-fired central heating throughout and additional log burning and flame-effect stove in the sitting room.

The cottage is suitable for the less able having category 3 disabled access though anyone can enjoy its country character and rest in comfort and luxury under the duvet in the iron bedstead.

Friars Folly sleeps 4 and is the middle cottage of the three. It has an entrance lobby, a fitted kitchen with fridge, microwave, electric cooker etc. and a dining area. A rustic pole supports the dark oak beam in the lounge. Windows with window seats and limestone lintels look out over the gardens to the hills beyond. Between the alcoves stands a cast iron stove and digital TV with video player.

Friars Folly - lounge

From the lounge a three stage staircase gives access to the landing for the two bedrooms, one a double with luxury iron bedstead and one twin. Both bedrooms have very old oak beams and trusses preserved in their medieval state and also off the landing is the bathroom with bath, power shower, toilet, wash basin and more beams.
Outside you will find garden furniture, pergolas, picnic table and barbecue for your use.

Abbots Abode sleeps 4 + 2 children and is the largest of the Monks Retreat cottages. It has a large dining kitchen with fitted units, electric cooker, fridge/freezer. dishwasher, microwave oven etc. at one side and an oak dining table and chairs at the other with a peninsular unit in between. In this split level cottage you go down three steps into the spacious sitting room which has a low beamed ceiling and large window giving views over the garden to the hills beyond. The cosy feel is completed by a cast iron stove and a digital TV with video player.

A short staircase leads to a twin bedded room with superb views down the length of Monksdale. This room has enormous oak trusses and a short ladder leads to a gallery where there are two single beds.The double bedroom also has huge beams, a luxury iron bedstead and wonderful views of Millers Dale. The bathroom has a bath with shower over and a washbain and toilet.
The garden has plenty of space to sit outside and there is a secluded patio with barbecue and garden furniture by the cottage.

Each of the cottages is individual in character and maintains its own privacy but together they make an ideal base for a larger party or group of familes and the dining area in Abbots Abode is large enough for the whole of such a group to relax over a meal together.
Each cottage has the use of a separate fully - equipped laundry area so that clothes can be washed and dried without the noise or steam spoiling the comfort of your cottage.
We will be pleased to arrange for a z-bed to be put in any of the cottages for extra guest space and cots, high chairs and stair gates can be supplied to ensure young children can enjoy their stay in comfort and safety.