Tack Barn

The highlights

• A generous Welcome Pack is also included in your stay and on request, a breakfast or dinner hamper can be provided full of delicious things from local suppliers and the organic kitchen garden.
• The Tack Barn is perfectly located for the opera at Glyndebourne, and the owners can arrange a picnic kit and can also recommend plenty of places where you can fill your hamper up with local food and wine.
• You’ll be spoilt for choice with places to visit nearby. Visit the Millennium Seed Bank at Wakefield Place, travel by steam train on the Bluebell Railway or visit Rudyard Kipling’s house.
• Festivals are abundant here. Check out the literary festival at Charleston, the famous country house associated with the artists, writers and intellectuals of the Bloomsbury group. Glynde Place hosts the Love Supreme jazz festival in July. While the artists of Lewes turn their homes into art galleries for the Artwave festival in late August.
• Take in the views that spawned a million postcards at the Seven Sisters and Beachy Head.

You should know

• Currently taking bookings of 7 nights or more to allow a 72 hour minimum layover between guests. Check the owner’s website for up to date information about these arrangements

The detail

Discretely nestled in the rolling Sussex countryside is the Tack Barn, a purpose-built sustainable holiday home nestled amid the private wood of the classy country house next door.

The Tack Barn has a spacious kitchen/living area that is flooded with light thanks to the many vast glass French windows that open straight onto a wraparound deck. In the kitchen you’ll find modern appliances and everything you need to take advantage of the amazing produce available nearby. Although the Tack Barn is self-catering, the owners can arrange breakfast and meal hampers from local suppliers for you, all you have to do is cook.

The living area features a log burner and comfy sofas where you can sit back and watch the day unfold over the kind of large pond you only ever find next to really nice houses.

The lone bedroom is full of small personal touches that make the biggest difference (for example, the Egyptian cotton sheets on the king size bed are line dried). Even more French windows open out onto the deck so you can even sit in bed and admire the view of that pond. The bathroom features a double-ended bath, towels are fluffy and organic, and they even supply candles if you need some extra help relaxing.

Outside there is a dining area next to the kitchen and a fire-pit for when the evenings take a chill. The woodland garden is perfect for a walk, and residents are welcome to stroll in the main garden and watch the sun set from the jetty.

If that all sounds too relaxing, you’ll be pleased to learn that you’re just a few miles from Lewes and its café’s, pubs and antiques markets. A famously creative region, you’ll find numerous paintings, sculptures and crafts from local contemporary artists filling the walls and adorning the shelves of the Barn itself.

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