Daleside - Rose Cottage

Rose Cottage is a single-storey conversion on a working farm near Carlisle, with a four-poster double bedroom and a bathroom upstairs. Downstairs, the whole ground floor is open plan—living area with woodburner and Smart TV, dining space with French doors onto a private patio, and a kitchen equipped for proper cooking. The essentials are covered: heating, electricity, linen, towels and wi-fi all included, plus initial logs for the stove and a welcome pack on arrival.

The patio has garden furniture and a barbecue, and you have private parking for one car. A washing machine and tumble dryer are available in a shared laundry room. The cottage sits within 500 acres of farmland grounds that guests can access. No smoking indoors. The building uses a natural spring water supply filtered on site.

This works well for a couple wanting somewhere quiet to base themselves in rural Cumberland, within reach of the Lake District and the Solway Firth coast. You're two miles from the owner's other properties on the same farm if you're travelling with friends.