The Cottage is a Grade II Listed Jacobean farmhouse dating from 1680. The south-facing cottage is naturally warm and full of sunlight. It is located in the ancient forest of Wyre on the Shropshire/Worcestershire border.

It has a separate, enclosed and sheltered front garden with a games lawn, viewing terrace, as well as shady seating arbours for hotter days.

There are two bedrooms on the first floor, and 3 living rooms downstairs. The cottage is naturally warm and full of sunlight, set off by white painted walls, pale terracotta and oak floor enhanced by invisible 24/7 under-floor central heating. It is south-facing with an enclosed, sheltered front garden and lawns, embracing an intimate, suntrap patio paved in antique bricks.

The cottage has two bedrooms and a bathroom on the first floor, with 3 living rooms and hall downstairs. It has been restored using appropriate materials such as earth daub, lime plaster and green oak, to regain much of its original character, including inglenook with a wood-burning stove in the sitting room and old stone bread oven (still usable) in the kitchen.

The farmyard, on the north side of the cottage is surrounded by a ruined stone and brick pigsty, a small converted barn, a high hedge bank, a stone outhouse undergoing renovation and a matching stone scullery leading off the east gable of the cottage.

Once here visitors notice the old world charm of the crooked timber frame, leaning walls, low beams and ceilings; and the many small details such as wrought iron windows dating from 1720, the sculptural wrought door handles and heavy 3 plank, ledged oak doors studded with rose-head cut iron nails.

Rustic seclusion is the characteristic that strikes most people first about Manor Holding, as it is located 100m off a rough forest track (max recommended speed 10mph), half a kilometre from the nearest country lane.

The cottage stands in 5 acres of wildflower grassland and ancient orchard, won from the forest before the industrial revolution and rich in wildlife including occasional Fallow Deer; and managed in accordance with a Higher Level Countryside Stewardship agreement in partnership with Natural England. The forest is home to England’s largest Ancient Woodland National Nature Reserve and Sites of Special Scientific Interest, which includes the two orchards beside the cottage.

This ancient oak forest stands astride the River Severn, south of the Ironbridge Gorge, now a World Heritage Site. The beautiful countryside around it, much of it classified as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, is rich in historic settlements and other places of interest. Manor Holding is situated in a scattered hamlet named after the royal forest of Wyre in whose centre it stands. In the iron age times this hamlet was a thriving small town, but now little more than traces of old earthworks can be seen in the neighbouring fields and forest.

The forest is laced with long and short-distance cycling and horse riding trails as well as a comprehensive network of footpaths, connecting right to the door of the cottage. The holiday cottage is also ideally placed for the Severn Valley Railway and West Midland Safari Park.

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