Cottage Barn is a home from home. It is cosy, well equipped and has a spectacular galleried bedroom on the first floor. The barn is located in the farming village of Jacobstow near Bude and when you stay here you really are in the middle of farm life unlike so many barn conversions where farming is long forgotten. With its stone exterior and exposed beams, granite blocks and a rough plaster finish inside, Cottage Barn has loads of character. Dogs are welcome [2 max.] but please look at our 'Things You Need to Know Page' for further details. If you are bringing a dog please ensure that it is either 'animal proof' or well supervised as there are chickens, geese and sheep in adjacent fields as well as dairy and beef herds nearby*.
Cottage Barn has two bedrooms, the upstairs galleried bedroom has a double bed plus a single bed. Downstairs there is a bedroom with twin beds and a chair bed that makes into a single bed. There is an additional chairbed in the dining room. Cottage Barn can therefore accommodate up to 6 people in a variety of bed combinations (!) but is too crowded if 6 adults are using it, 2 adults and 4 children would be the maximum size of group that could be comfortably accommodated. We only supply bed linen and towels for 4 people.
The garden was extended in 2008 and now comprises a grassy section plus a 3-tiered area with gravel, planted and paved sections so that you can follow the sun all day, starting on the chairs next to the conservatory and ending up sitting at the table on the paved patio at the end of the garden, catching the last rays as the sun sets behind the barn next door.
For quiet nights in, the barn is equipped with:
and a lovely conservatory complete with fairy lights, ideal for chatting and relaxing on warm summer nights. There is a woodburning stove in the conservatory as well making it an ideal spot for autumn and winter evenings.
We have acquired a couple of little bar-b-q's which visitors have left behind, nothing 'posh' but perfectly adequate for cooking your lunch or supper so don't feel you need to pack your own.
If you don't want to cook there are numerous pubs and restaurants within a short drive [or you could walk to The Wainhouse, the nearest pub]. Details of several are on the noticeboard in the hallway at the barn, with comments left by guests so that you get an honest opinion as to what is on offer at the various places. The 'Links to useful sites' page of this website will take you to websites for local pubs and restaurants.
*NB Although Cottage Barn is sited between two farms, hiring Cottage Barn does not give you any right to enter either farm. Farms are potentially dangerous places so please ensure you make any children you bring to the cottage aware of where they can and can't go. Please note too that when lambs and calves are being born this will be a further temptation to children but is also when animals are at their most protective so for safety's sake and out of courtesy to our neighbours please respect boundaries.
Beaches
Cottage Barn is close to great surfing beaches beaches at Crackington Haven and Widemouth Bay and within easy travel distance to well known seaside towns such as Boscastle, Port Isaac,Tintagel, Padstow, Rock and Bude.
Other local attractions include:
National Trust properties, some with evening badger watching tours at certain times of year
National Trust gardens
Bodmin Moor and Dartmoor
local centres offering a range of activities such as horse-riding, fishing, kayaking, mountain boarding, sailing, surfing and wind surfing
the foot ferry from Rock beach to Padstow [dogs allowed]
Further afield there is:
the Eden Project
the Lost Gardens of Heligan
St Michael's Mount
the art galleries at St Ives
the monkey sanctuary near Looe
Land's End