Self-catering · Uley
Owlpen Manor Cottages
Nine dog-friendly holiday cottages for two to eight, and a glamping camp, on the Owlpen Manor estate in a wooded valley a mile east of Uley.
Dog-friendly · Walker-friendly · Family-friendly
Cottages in one of the most secluded valleys on the Cotswold edge, with private walks and a spring-fed lake on the estate, and every one takes dogs. The old buildings come with steep stairs and low ceilings, and the estate also hosts weddings.
- Good: All nine cottages are dog-friendly
- Good: Private walking trails and wild swimming in a spring-fed lake
- Good: From cottages for two to Grist Mill for eight; Over Court and Manor Farm join to sleep nine
- Worth knowing: The Court House has steep, narrow winding stairs and uneven floors
- Worth knowing: Peter's Nest is up a long, bumpy private drive, with low ceilings upstairs
- Worth knowing: The estate is a wedding venue, with events in the barn
About
Owlpen Manor is a stone manor house on an estate with over a thousand years of history, in a steep, wooded valley a mile east of Uley. The estate lets nine cottages, sleeping 40 between them, and Squirrel Wood Camp, a glamping site of tents with showers and a barbecue kitchen for groups of up to 14. Guests can use the estate's private walking trails and swim in its spring-fed lake.
The cottages range from Apple Loft, a studio for two in a fifteenth-century barn, and Peter's Nest, a woodland cottage for two with a wood-burner at the end of the valley, to Grist Mill, the largest, for eight. The Court House is a Grade II listed garden building of about 1620 beside the manor gardens, best for four, on three floors joined by a narrow spiral stair. Over Court and Manor Farm connect to take nine. All take dogs, and towels, linen and Wi-Fi are included.
Approach through Uley, turning by the Old Crown on the green, rather than down the steep lane signed from the hilltop. Keys are collected from the estate office, open 9am to 4pm on weekdays; check-in is from 3pm and check-out by 10am. Mobile signal is patchy in the valley, though every cottage has wifi. The nearest stations are Stroud, about 8 miles, and Kemble, about 16, and the estate advises coming by car. The hill fort of Uley Bury is on the ridge above the village.
Opening hours and season
Check-in from 3pm, check-out by 10am. Weekly stays are seven nights arriving Friday or Monday; weekend breaks are two or three nights and midweek breaks four nights, Monday to Friday.
The details
- Rooms
- 9
- Features
- Garden or terrace · Views · Open fire · Wi-Fi · Parking · Dogs inside · Events and meetings
- Parking
- Park in the estate car park; collect keys from the estate office beyond the red gate.
Photos
The Court House, about 1620 
The drive to Peter's Nest 
The Court House dining room 
The Apple Loft, Owlpen
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Uley Brewery 1.3 km away
- Uley Bury 1.7 km away
- Hetty Pegler's Tump (Uley Long Barrow) 2.0 km away
- Hunters Hall Inn 2.6 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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Woodchester Park boathouse
Sight · Historic building · Nailsworth
The boathouse on Old Pond in Woodchester Park is a small rustic building of about 1820, probably by John Adey Repton for the first Earl Ducie, with a boat dock below and a timber oriel over the boat opening. Grade II; seen from the path over the dam.
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St Bartholomew's Church, Newington Bagpath
Sight · Church · The South Cotswolds
St Bartholomew's is the small Norman church of Newington Bagpath, a hamlet near Kingscote, with a chancel rebuilt by S S Teulon in 1858. Closed in 1978 and sold in 1990, it is a private building, seen from outside, beside a Norman castle mound. Grade II.
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Lasborough Park
Sight · Historic building · The South Cotswolds
Lasborough Park is a small Gothic country house of 1794 by James Wyatt, with four battlemented corner towers, standing in its own park in the valleys near Kingscote in the South Cotswolds. It is a private home, seen from the public footpath on our Kingscote walk. Grade II.