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MALTHOUSE COTTAGE

TETBURY
TETBURY
TETBURY

MALTHOUSE COTTAGE OFFERS HISTORY, COMFORT,
AND SUPERB LOCATION. SOME PORTIONS OF THIS
LOVELY COTTAGE REPORTEDLY DATE FROM THE
11TH CENTURY, MAKING MALTHOUSE COTTAGE 
ONE OF THE OLDEST BUILDINGS IN TETBURY.
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Malthouse Cottage, Tetbury. Portions of the house are almost 1,000 years old. Photo © Home At First.

Photos © Home At First          

Since medieval times Tetbury's Chipping Steps have led from the lower town past Malthouse Cottage to the market square. Photo © Home At First.

THE ACCOMMODATION:
The cottage sleeps 2-4 persons in two small double bedrooms (double beds) on the second floor, where there is also a full bathroom (with tub/shower). On the ground floor there is a cozy living and kitchen/dining area with wonderfully authentic open beams, stone walls, leaded-glass windows, and fireplace. The owner resides next door to Malthouse. She provides a friendly welcome and information about the cottage and the locale.



SINCE THE MIDDLE AGES TETBURY'S

CHIPPING STEPS HAVE LED FROM TETBURY'S
LOWER TOWN TO ITS MARKET SQUARE.


The steeple of Tetbury's landmark church of St. Mary the Virgin can be seen for miles across the Southern Cotswolds. Photo © Home At First.THE SETTING: Malthouse Cottage is one of several cottages of medieval origin that line Tetbury’s famed Chipping Steps, which served as the site for the hiring of domestic and farm labor on market days centuries ago. Now the cobbled Chipping Steps are simply the oldest part of the town, connecting the old hilltop market square with a car park for visitors. Tetbury, a classic Cotswold success story, prospered from the region’s wool trade which exploded after the Norman conquest brought enormous Continental demand for British wool. The center of the trade in Tetbury was atop the hill at the town square, hard by the Chipping Steps. Malthouse Cottage, parts of which date from the 11th century Norman Conquest, is a living remnant of that historic prosperity, and a comfortable, convenient one, to boot.

THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST. MARY
THE VIRGIN (1777), TETBURY.

LOCATION: Tetbury is in the geographic center of the southern Cotswolds. It still hosts an open market on Fridays at the 350-year-old pillared Market House. Other notable town landmarks include the Georgian gothic St. Mary’s Church, dating from the time of the American Revolution, with England’s fourth highest spire, and the fox-hunt themed Snooty Fox Hotel, adjacent to the Chipping Steps. With lots of 17th-18th century character, shopping facilities, interesting restaurants and pubs Tetbury is a haven for antique lovers or those looking for an authentic Cotswolds experience.
        Tetbury’s location is ideally situated for touring the Cotswolds—from Bath to Oxford to Stratford-on-Avon. Day-trips outside the region are also quite manageable, to destinations as varied and attractive as
Salisbury and Stonehenge, Tintern Abbey and the Welsh borders and even London. The nearest large towns of Cirencester (with its fine Roman museum), Gloucester (with its great cathedral and historic inland harbor), and Cheltenham (former great spa of the Regency period, and center of the Cotswolds antiques universe), are easily explored from Tetbury. But the big attractions in the Cotswolds are its smallest, oldest, least changed, best-preserved villages and towns, like Chipping Camden, Broadway, Winchcombe, and Bourton-on-the-Water. These and dozens of better and lesser-known Cotswolds jewels (see: Stanton) make wonderful places to visit on any easy day-trip meander from Tetbury.

ACTIVITIES: Tetbury offers a wide variety of activities, especially touring and walking.Tetbury's colonnaded Market House still hosts a weekly market in the town square a short walk from Malthouse Cottage. Photo © Home At First. Nearby is the acclaimed Westonbirt Arboretum with 17 miles of trails exploring some 600 acres of beautifully landscaped grounds. Another important, but not public, neighboring estate is Highgrove House, country home of Prince Charles. There is no shortage of walking paths—both short and long distance—in the area. Cycling in the region includes on and off-road routes, and short and long-distance trips on dedicated mapped and marked bike paths.

THE TETBURY MARKET OPERATES EVERY WEDNESDAY UNDER
COVER OF THE HISTORIC, COLONNADED MARKET HOUSE.

        There are local open-air markets in most neighboring towns, and Tetbury’s weekly Wednesday market is 2-minutes walk from the cottage. Important architecture, like Tetbury’s Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin and the Market House, invites exploratory walking through nearby towns and villages. Delightful, often unusual, pubs and restaurants provide sustenance after hours of walking or touring. Tetbury offers excellent dining, and several restaurants, cafιs, tea rooms, and pubs are within a short walk of Malthouse Cottage.

AVAILABILITY: For current availability information, call HOME AT FIRST at (800) 523-5842
or contact us by e-mail at:
info@homeatfirst.com.

Note: This property is HOME AT FIRST's highest-rated Southern Cotswolds cottage by guest review.

 

In our customers' own words—
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        "We did have a truly wonderful time in the Cotswolds. We thank you for arranging for us to stay at the quite lovely and charming Malthouse Cottage in Tetbury."                                                                                       —B. & R. Salisbury, North Carolina
 

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