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Field House
3 nights – 07/11/2025 to 10/11/2025
Arrival: Friday from 4pm
Departure: Monday before 10am

A gracious farmhouse amongst open fields in the South Cotswolds, its architecture typical of the handsome gabled style of the region. The house is surrounded by a large and sunny walled garden and orchard. There is lots to explore nearby in this gentle part of the country including historic market towns and good walking country.

This handsome stone house was left to us with the surrounding land by Miss Eileen Jenkins, who had lived here for the previous 20 years. Field House is an unusual building, since although it has been a single house for over a century, it was clearly once four separate dwellings round a narrow yard, each with one room up and one down. But by 1884 the yard had been roofed over and filled with a staircase, and the whole building became one farmhouse. This early conversion works remarkably well, creating well proportioned, sunny rooms with an air of simple elegance.

A house like this can tell us much about the attitude of our forebears to their surroundings, and help us appreciate the worth of their simple values. There is so much to enjoy in these southern Cotswolds as they merge into the childhood countryside of author Laurie Lee around Stroud. There are Roman sites nearby at Chedworth and Cirencester, and the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at Slimbridge. Westonbirt Arboretum isn’t too far away, as is Berkeley Castle. Field House overlooks one of the three courses of the Minchinhampton golf club.