Narbonne house a unique Cotswold holiday home

Countryside and village in one

Narbonne house is a Cotswold stone house build around 1764. It is made up of two main sections – the traditional house section which faces the road and a long stable conversion to the back of the house. The stable conversion leads to a long garden that extending to the River Leach (near it’s source so quite a small river) to playing fields with open fields beyond. This means that when you open the front door, you’re immediately in the middle of a lovely old Cotswold village with shops and pubs and when you go out the back you’ve got the countryside beyond.

Narbonne house has a real welcoming feel to it. The front part of the house is divided over three floors with the back section over two floors. Most of the 5 bedrooms are large and each one is has a different personality. The two bathrooms have been recently refurbished. The kitchen features a stone floor and an Aga. The first living room you come to is in regency red and boast a stone fireplace. This leads to a dining room with a woodstove. At the back of the house you’ll find a second large living room under the slanted roof of the stable conversion. As you walk up to the first floor you find a big open landing – large enough to be a third living room.

You can also visit National Trust and other sites such as the Roman Villa, Lodge Park, Snowshill, Cotswold Water and Wildlife Parks and the Arboretum in Westonbirt. Northleach is only 20 miles from Oxford. Bath, a designated World Heritage Site, is one of Britain’s most beautiful and historically significant cities and Gloucester’s redeveloped national canal museum with historic Cathedral featured in the films of J K Rowling’s first Harry Potter books. You can visit Shakespeare’s birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon which is just a 30 minute drive away.