The Comb · Self-catering
The Comb Lodge.
A converted stone farm round a courtyard. Sleeps 20 in ten en-suite bedrooms, five of them on the ground floor, with a bar, a dining room for 26, a snug with a log burner, a games room and the Dark Skies Balcony.
In numbers
The house.
Room by room
Two wings round a courtyard.
The east wing
The bar, the lounge, the games room with the one television, the kitchen, the snug with the log burner, and three of the bedrooms.
The west wing
The other bedrooms, including the Sidwood room at the end with the Dark Skies Balcony. Two of the upstairs bedrooms have small balconies of their own.
The dining room
Joins the two wings. One table that seats 26, and 30 at a push for a dinner.
The bedrooms
Ten, over two floors, all en suite, with exposed beams and wooden floors. Two singles, four doubles with king-size beds, and four twins. All five ground-floor bedrooms take a wheelchair, and two of them have accessible bathrooms: one with a bath and a shower, one with a wheel-in shower. One ground-floor double has a staircase up to a mezzanine with two more single beds, so it works as a family room. Two of the doubles have baths as well as showers. Every double has room for a cot or a child’s bed, and two of the twins do too.
The kitchen
A range, two dishwashers, a fridge freezer, a microwave, a big kitchen table and a walk-in larder. Big pans and oven space for a full house. Iron, ironing board and hairdryers in the house. A washing machine in the outhouse for stays of more than three nights.
Heat, water, signal
Central heating throughout, a log burner in the snug, and hot water for a full house. Wi-Fi by satellite, which is enough for email and calls over Wi-Fi and not enough for streaming. No mobile signal; the hill is in the way. No hot tub: the water comes from a spring.
Outside
The courtyard, the lawns and the burn.
The grounds
60 acres of lawn, woodland, open hill and the burn, with Kielder Forest at the end of the drive. The fire pit, with logs, kindling and marshmallow sticks.
The Dark Skies Balcony
Off the Sidwood room at the end of the west wing, with no light in front of it. The place to stand on a clear night.
Parking
Room for every car. There is no EV charging at the house; the nearest is in Bellingham.
Dogs
Welcome, with 60 acres to run in. We ask that they stay off the furniture and out of the bedrooms, and that the grounds are cleared up after them.
With the Farmhouse
Add the Farmhouse and the estate is yours.
Each house is only ever let to one party. If you take the Lodge, the Farmhouse may be let to another family; it has its own garden and drive, so you will rarely notice them. Take both and the houses and the lawns are yours alone: around 30 of you, and the Dark Skies Barn to hire on top, with our staff, if it is a party.
The Farmhouse · Self-catering at the Comb · Questions, answered
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Rough dates, rough numbers and which house. We reply personally, usually within a day.