Discover Quaint Cotswold Cottages
If there is a single image that sums up the Cotswolds, it’s probably a honey-colour stone cottage, complete with wildflower garden and roses around the door. Very romantic and, if that’s what you expect to see, you certainly won’t be disappointed. Any small village (and most of the towns) offer classic Cotswold cottages ‘postcard’ views around every corner.
These days larger cottages in the more fashionable villages can cost anything up to £1m, but most are real houses, with real people living in them! Even better, some of them are B&Bs or guesthouses – so you can stay there too.
Many of the Cotswold cottages feature wonderful idyllic gardens, where an apparently natural style hides the fact that they are hard work to maintain. A good tip for garden lovers is to look for a “B&B for Garden Lovers” property in the area.
The Cotswolds would not be the Cotswolds without its cottages. Even the English themselves recognise the Cotswold Cottage as an ideal way of living and the Cotswold village as a fairytale scene.
Many houses date from the 16th and 17th century and the ultimate expression of working rural life is probably in the incredibly beautiful village of Bibury, near Cirencester and Burford. This small village is just what you would expect to find in the Cotswolds – to stand by a row of old weavers’ cottages called ‘Arlington row’ is to imagine yourself in a different era.
Find out how you can discover these cottages for yourself.