Self-catering · Painswick
Cotswold Lodge
A one-bedroom lodge on Stamages Lane, Painswick, for two adults and up to two young children, with a deck over the valley and free parking.
A small lodge for a couple, or a couple with young children, with a deck over the valley and the hosts on hand next door.
- Good: Private deck with valley views
- Good: Free private parking
- Good: Welcome basket and a stocked fridge
- Worth knowing: Two adults only; no single-sex groups
- Worth knowing: Bathroom reached through the bedroom
- Worth knowing: The deck overlooks the hosts' garden
About
Cotswold Lodge is a self-contained, one-bedroom lodge at Cedar House on Stamages Lane in Painswick. It has more than 65 square metres of space (over 700 sq ft), with underfloor heating, and bi-fold doors open onto a private wooden deck with views over the valley. The deck partly overlooks the hosts' own garden, so you may see them and their Tibetan terrier, Freddie, who may visit the deck.
The bedroom is a loft-style room with a king-size bed and an en suite walk-in shower, reached through the bedroom. A sofa bed in the open-plan lounge takes up to two young children, with bedding on request (its Plum Guide listing says the sofa bed costs extra); only two adults may stay, and single-sex groups are not accepted. The kitchen has an oven and hob, dishwasher and washing machine, and there is a 50-inch smart TV, a dining table that doubles as a desk and fast wifi. A high chair is provided.
Guests arrive to a welcome basket of fruit, biscuits and home-made scones or local cake, with organic milk and orange juice in the fridge. Parking is free and private. It is booked direct through the lodge's website, which shows prices for your dates. Its Plum Guide listing gives check-in from 3pm and check-out by 10am, while Booking.com gives check-in from 4pm to 9pm and check-out by 10am; both say pets are not allowed and the two levels are linked by a staircase, so it does not suit guests with mobility impairments.
The details
- Rooms
- 1
- Check-in
- From 3pm or 4pm to 9pm; contactless
- Check-out
- By 10am (Plum Guide and Booking.com)
- Features
- Parking · Wi-Fi · Views · Garden or terrace
- Parking
- Free private parking on site.
Photos
The living room 
The bedroom 
The kitchen 
The view over Painswick
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Stable Cottage, Painswick 0.5 km away
- Barn Cottage, Painswick 0.5 km away
- The Painswick 0.5 km away
- The Falcon Inn 0.5 km away
Sights nearby
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Frith Wood
Sight · Wood · Stroud and the Five Valleys
Frith Wood is an ancient beech wood of 24 hectares on the ridge between the Painswick and Slad valleys, a Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust reserve and SSSI recorded as beech woodland for over 1,000 years, with bluebells, wild garlic and woodruff in spring.
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Painswick Stream
Sight · River · Painswick
The Painswick Stream runs south in the valley below Painswick to the River Frome at Stroud. It drove the town's cloth trade: 25 mills stood in the parish in 1820. Footpaths follow it past Loveday's Mill, Skinners Mill and Kingsmill, old mills that are now homes.
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Court House, Painswick
Sight · Historic building · Painswick
The Court House is a gabled stone manor house of 1604 on Hale Lane, beside Painswick churchyard, with a panelled court room and a bedroom named after Charles I. Listed Grade I, it is a private home seen from the lane and the churchyard.
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St Mary's Church, Painswick
Sight · Church · Painswick
St Mary's is Painswick's Grade I parish church, of the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries with a tall stone spire, set in a churchyard of clipped yews and carved table tombs that is on the national Register of Parks and Gardens. Open daily; the clipping is each September.