Downe Cottages provide a rare combination of private luxury cottages with an excellent leisure facility attached (spacious gym and spa plus a reading room available from 6.00 a.m. to 10.00 p.m. each day) located in the heart of the North Devon Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Whatever the weather it is possible to thoroughly enjoy your visit to North Devon with the combination of a warm and spacious cottage and the extensive leisure facilities.
Wistaria Cottage is a luxury three bedroom self-catering cottage on two floors with glorious sea views.
This cottage is within one of the oldest of the farm buildings at Downe with walls dating from the 18th Century and is perhaps the best located of all the cottages. It has a garden table and chairs located due west of the French windows that open from the living area. The view over the Atlantic Ocean is stunning and many late night dinners take place on summer nights as the sun sets in the west and lights up the sky.
The ground floor has an open-plan living, dining and kitchen area, with French windows looking west out over the Atlantic, and the master bedroom. The kitchen is fully equipped and includes a dishwasher, fridge/freezer, microwave, oven and washer-dryer; the living area has two large 3-seater sofas, a living flame electric fire, a 32" digital television with D.V.D player. The dining area has an antique pine table and six dining chairs. The master bedroom has a Queen size bed (5') and en-suite shower room with two bedside tables, chest of drawers, fitted wardrobe and a three quarters length mirror hung on the wall.
On the first floor there is a galleried landing and a further two bedrooms with sea views. Each bedroom has twin beds and en-suite shower rooms, two bedside tables, chest of drawers, fitted wardrobe and a three quarters length mirror hung on the wall.
Both of the upstairs bedroom have superb views out to the Atlantic - we call them "180 degree" sea views as one looks South over the village of Stoke in the distance to the Atlantic, West directly out over the Atlantic and North up to Lundy Island.
• Central heating in all rooms
• Communal gardens
• Includes all consumables
• Garage parking
• Bathrobes and slippers provided for adults
Gym & Spa Facilities at Done
The Gym
The Gym is open from 6.00 a.m. to 10.00 p.m. each day.
The gym is beautifully located in the Atlantic Room and has views across fields out to Hartland Point and Lundy Island beyond. (Lundy Island is where the Atlantic meets the Bristol Channel.)
The gym is spacious, light and airy and equipped with aerobic equipment, free weights, an ab trainer, an exercise bench and exercise mats.
All of the aerobic equipment is either Life Fitness equipment
(including a treadmill, a cross trainer, a stepper, an upright cycle and a recumbent cycle) or Concept 11 equipment (a rower).
The gym is accessed through the Reading Room in the Conservatory. There is a raised area here overlooking the gym equipment with a seating for the less energetic to sit and admire their dynamic partners!
The Atlantic Room also houses a library and dvd collection for our guests to use.
French windows from the Gym lead out to a raised patio area with tables and chairs looking out to Lundy Island - another opportunity to enjoy the wonderful surroundings.
The Spa
The Spa consists of a spa bath (with seats for eight adults), a steam room (with seats for seven adults) and a sauna.
The Spa is open from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. each evening (the spa bath is available from 6 p.m.) .
Gym Sweat Towels and Bath Towels for the Spa are provided and the cost of both Gym and Spa are included in the cottage rental.
Our home from home cottages provides lovely accommodation for a relaxing break throughout the year.
Visit Trip Advisor to read some of the wonderful reviews that past visitors to Downe have written. Those reviews are Downe's best advertisement - they are all genuine and show a consistent picture of lovely holidays at Downe.
