The Holiday Cottage Collection is a carefully curated selection of holiday lets for those seeking a spectacular staycation. Each cottage is delightfully clean and comfortable so it’s the perfect bolthole to relax, recharge, and rekindle your love of the fabulous English countryside.

Escape to the country in this stunning thatched cottage. Set in the grounds of the owner’s 15th C timber hall,Spinster’s Nook offers luxurious studio accommodation that's been ingeniously and sympathetically modernised. The parquet flooring has been up-cycled from Cloth Hall and is now warm underfoot. The modern kitchen with its cast concrete worktops and state of the art wet room surround a comfy kingsize bed. Guests also have access to a heated outdoor swimming pool in the warmer half of the year.

Smarden is a small picturesque village, often called the 'loveliest village in Kent' and after a visit, you'll know why as it is a beautiful Kentish weavers' village with around 200 buildings of architectural and historical note. You'll find three pubs within walking distance, a butchers, a vintage shop and an art gallery. 3.5 miles away is the town of Headcorn where larger shops and a mainline train station can be found. Close by guests can explore Sissinghurst Castle and Gardens, Leeds Castle and Bodiam Castle. There is a golf club close by at Chart Hills and fishing lakes at Cackle Hill. Historic Rye is 19 miles away, Camber Sands is just a few miles further along the coast. The Kent and East Sussex Railway is in Tenterden, which is known as the Jewel in the Weald locally, with lots of independent shops, restaurants, cafes and pubs. There are vineyard tours and tastings at Chapel Down in Small Hythe, near Tenterden and Hush Heath Winery in Staplehurst. There is free parking for one car inside the gated grounds, close to the Cottage, with plenty of on street parking locally for any additional cars. The village has a bus service and the nearest train station is in Headcorn, which is 3.5 miles away.