The accommodation, studio and eating areas are situated close together around a thoughtfully maintained garden next to gentle meadows offering stunning, panoramic views, allowing you space between activities and room to wander and reflect. There are two recently renovated dormitories, 'The Studio' and 'The Playroom', which offer simple but comfortable and reasonably spacious single-gender accommodation for up to seventeen people. We can cater for up to twenty people at any one time.
All accommodation is equipped with toilets, showers and washing areas as well as basic hot drink making facilities. There are good quality, sturdy single and bunk beds with individual storage drawers. Duvets, pillows, linen and towels are provided.
Apart from the sensitively managed estate in which students are free to wander there is also a private hard surface tennis court and open air pool that you are welcome to use.
With its open fire, high ceiling and refreshing artworks, The Stables, a beautifully converted 1930s stable and adjoining property, provides a warm and practical area for eating, chatting, relaxing and, if you choose, cooking. The ground level has an open-plan, well equipped, kitchen and dining room with under-floor heating. There is a separates stereo system with a CD player, DAB radio and amplifier (with an iPod connection cable) which you may wish to use as teaching aids or to enhance your own ambience. Immediately outside there is a large, decked, seated eating area which is wonderful for informal meals and gatherings in more clement weather.
The Stables also affords separate, self-contained accommodation for the facilitators and their helpers; sleeping up to five people in two double bedrooms and one single. There is a study area (which has a quality television and DVD player), a shower room with a toilet and a bathroom (with a huge bath and another toilet). As you would expect, the furnishing and facilities are all of a very high standard and the space allows you room to study, plan and run individual or small group sessions in privacy and comfort.
Set a little away from the other buildings, in the corner of a meadow and edged by a hedgerow. The Old Cowshed is a wonderful large, light studio space purposefully restored to make it ideal for lessons and practice. It has a singular ambience; a sense of calm and quiet beauty that encourages study, self-development and contemplation.