Mel House Cottages – Mallard in Pickering
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Please quote code 98292 in all correspondence.
- Accommodation: Cottages
- Board basis: Self Catering
- Holiday type: Countryside, Pet Friendly
- Sleeps: 6
- Bedrooms: 3
Facilities available
Facilities available for hire
Description
Lovingly converted from a former run of stables, this delightful cottage is one of four holiday properties located in a quiet village in the North York Moors National Park.
The cottage has retained its original features where attractive and practical, with 150-year-old beams and purlins and some stone crannies, while ensuring that no modern comfort is missing.
The ground floor offers an open-plan and spacious sitting room and a wood-burning stove set in a stone fireplace. The fitted kitchen is separated from the dining area by a peninsula unit with cupboards underneath.
There is also a twin bedroom with fitted furniture and a spacious fully tiled wet room with bath, thermostatically controlled electric shower, toilet, basin with shaver socket alongside, heated towel rail, and ceiling extractor fan.
Because the existing ground floor area is open-plan, it has been possible to adapt this cottage to the point where it is entirely suitable for an accompanied guest requiring full-time use of a wheelchair.
Accessible via the downstairs dining area, the wet room incorporates appropriate support rails and thermostatically controlled mixer taps on the basin. In addition, the owners can make available an aluminium/plastic wheeled shower chair (not self-propelled), which has a maximum weight limit of 16 stone. Both the wet room and the adjacent twin bedroom have 1.5-metre turning areas for a wheelchair.
The first floor contains two cosy bedrooms: one double (overlooking the village green) and one twin. There is also a bathroom with hand-held mixer tap shower attachment, toilet, basin with light/shaver socket above, heated towel rail, and ceiling extractor fan. The first floor has partial headroom due to the original low beams in the eaves.
Leisure suite
The cottage benefits from an onsite leisure suite, which includes a heated swimming pool, spa and sauna.
Access to the suite is via a self-closing door with a wheelchair-friendly low threshold and a digital lock, the code being provided only to adults. Exposed beams and purlins in the roof void are highlighted by atmospheric lighting, while full wheelchair-accessible changing, shower and toilet facilities are available to meet all practical requirements.
Use of these facilities is included in the rental rate for your accommodation, with the exception of the sauna, which is charged via a meter.
The suite is open between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m.
Enclosed water garden and fish pond
Outside there is a water garden enclosed by a stone wall bed and, beyond, a lengthy flower bed with many varied plants that provide a real show during the warmer months.
There are two ponds – the larger containing various species of freshwater fish, and the other being intended for wildlife – which are linked by an artificial stream created by pumping water from the lower to the higher pond via a small waterfall. Here guests can sit on a bench and relax while watching the fish, birds, frogs, toads, newts and insects that are attracted to this peaceful spot.
Stabling and paddocks
The owners are able to offer DIY livery facilities from May to September for those wishing to bring their horses or ponies on holiday with them, provided they are appropriately insured. There are two stables available and two paddocks, one being the size of a ménage (its former function) and the other approximately three-quarters of an acre in size.
The surrounding area is fantastic riding country, and the cottage affords easy access via a bridleway to Newtondale, Cropton Forest and the North York Moors National Park.
Facilities
- Onsite leisure suite
- Wood-burning stove in sitting room
- Full central heating and double-glazed windows throughout
- All heating and electricity, logs, bed linen (duvets), towels and tea towels included in rental price
- High chair and cot available without charge (cot linen not provided)
- TV, Freeview, DVD player, stereo radio/CD player
- Built-in electric oven and hob with extractor fan above, microwave, fridge-freezer and dishwasher
- Barbecue
- Free WiFi internet access
- Communal table tennis table
- Parking for two cars (more by specific arrangement)
- Stables for guests’ horses
Two shared automatic washing machines and a tumble drier (all operated by coin meters) are sited in a separate laundry room.
One well-behaved dog welcome.
Strictly non-smokers only.
Area information
Situated in the peaceful village of Newton-on-Rawcliffe, approximately 30 miles north-east of York, the cottage is away from it all, yet still close to one of the UK’s most attractive cities.
Popular local attractions include:
- North York Moors Steam Railway: 5 minutes – but allow additional time for parking or you’ll miss the train!
- Cropton Forest: 10 minutes
- Flamingo Land theme park and zoo: 20 minutes
- Eden Camp Modern History Theme Museum: 25 minutes
- Dalby Forest (frequent venue for the cross-country Mountain Bike World Cup): 25 minutes
- Ryedale Folk Museum: 25 minutes
- Castle Howard stately home and arboretum (the setting for Granada Television’s 1981 production of Brideshead Revisited): 35 minutes
- Duncombe Park stately home (since 2013 home of the International Centre for Birds of Prey): 35 minutes
- Rievaulx Abbey and Rievaulx Terrace and Temples: 35 minutes
- Whitby: 40 minutes
- Scarborough: 40 minutes
- North Yorkshire and Cleveland Heritage Coast: 40–60 minutes
- Jorvik Viking Centre, York: 55 minutes
- National Railway Museum, York: 55 minutes
- York Racecourse: 55 minutes
- Fountains Abbey: 1 hour 20 minutes
Information last updated: 03/01/2023 09:54:33