Self-catering · Dursley
Downhouse Farm Holidays
A Grade II listed farmhouse for ten and a converted granary barn for four on a working family farm at Springhill, about a mile from Dursley; dogs welcome.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly · Walker-friendly · EV charging
A family farm that suits a big group or two families together: the farmhouse sleeps ten, the level, newly converted barn four, and both take up to two dogs. Footpaths cross the fields, but there are livestock, so dogs go on leads.
- Good: Farmhouse for ten and barn for four; 10% off when you book both
- Good: Up to two well-behaved dogs a property
- Good: Granary Barn is single-storey and level, with underfloor heating
- Worth knowing: A working farm with livestock: dogs on leads on the footpaths
- Worth knowing: Dogs kept off the farmhouse upstairs, out of the barn bedrooms, off furniture and never left alone
- Worth knowing: The farmhouse adjoins a neighbour; quiet hours 9pm to 9am
About
Downhouse Farm is a working farm at Springhill, about a mile outside Dursley, in the same family for more than thirty years. It lets two self-catering houses, separately or together, with ten per cent off for booking both.
The Farmhouse is Grade II listed and sleeps up to ten in four bedrooms. It has a big kitchen with an Aga as well as an ordinary oven, a table for eight, a sitting room with a wood-burner, a second room with a gas stove and a piano, and a flagstoned boot room for muddy boots and bikes; mind the low back door. Granary Barn, newly converted, sleeps four in two bedrooms on one level, heated by an air-source heat pump under the floor, and looks over the fields to the sheep and the farm's pigs. Airbnb lists the farmhouse with two and a half bathrooms and seven beds.
Both take up to two dogs and have enclosed gardens, though the farm says these are not secure for every dog. Both have pay-as-you-go EV charge points and are family-friendly, with a high chair and travel cot on request; linen and towels are provided, but bring your own cot bedding. Footpaths cross the farm, and the Cotswold Way from King's Stanley to Dursley runs over the hills nearby. Check-in is from 4pm and check-out by 10am. The farmhouse is listed on Simply Owners with a minimum stay of two nights, and the Granary Barn listing there says dogs come at no extra cost.
The details
- Rooms
- 2
- Check-in
- From 4pm
- Check-out
- By 10am
- Minimum stay
- Two nights at the farmhouse, as listed on Simply Owners; ask about Granary Barn.
- Features
- Garden or terrace · Views · Open fire · Parking · Dogs inside
- History
- Grade II listed farmhouse on a working farm
- Parking
- A large gravel drive at the farmhouse; space for a couple of cars beside Granary Barn.
Photos
The farmhouse sitting room 
A farmhouse bedroom 
Granary Barn 
The Granary Barn kitchen
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- India Zones, Dursley 1.3 km away
- Dursley Heritage Centre 1.3 km away
- Woodland House 1.4 km away
- The Old Spot Inn, Dursley 1.6 km away
Sights nearby
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Woodchester Park
Sight · Common or park · Nailsworth
A steep wooded valley west of Nailsworth, National Trust since 1994: a deer park walled by the Huntleys after a grant of 1564, with five lakes of the early nineteenth century, a boathouse of about 1820 and the unfinished Woodchester Mansion at its head.
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Tyndale Monument, North Nibley
Sight · Monument · Wotton-under-Edge
The Tyndale Monument is the tower on Nibley Knoll above North Nibley, built in 1866 by S. S. Teulon in memory of William Tyndale, translator of the first printed English New Testament. Grade II*; usually open to climb, free, with a key nearby if locked.
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Brackenbury Ditches hill fort
Sight · Hill fort or barrow · Wotton-under-Edge
Brackenbury Ditches is an Iron Age hill fort in Westridge Wood on a spur of the Cotswold Edge above North Nibley, with a great inner rampart 3m high and a ditch 14m wide, unexcavated when surveyed in 1976 and now among the trees. Beside public footpaths through the wood.