Converted rv station wagon for rent12/22/2023 Sleeps 8 (four adults and four children), from £250 for two nights (minimum two-night stay), week from £500 (Nov-Feb), seabankselsey. There’s plenty to do in Selsey (boat trips, diving, paddling and beachcombing, with Pagham Harbour nature reserve nearby) but if the rain rolls in there’s a woodburning stove and stacks of board games and books to curl up with. But, inside, you can make out the carriages, decked out in jaunty, seaside chic with cream floorboards and Lloyd Loom chairs in two double bedrooms and two twins with bunk beds. Now these two are unrecognisable from the outside, converted into a periwinkle-blue and white-clapboard seaside villa with an enclosed veranda for sea views, and circled by a fenced garden with decking. “Clarrie” and “Annabel” once plied the London-to-Brighton line (you can still see working examples on Sussex’s Bluebell Railway and Isle of Wight Steam Railway). Seabank is a beachfront pad created from two restored 19th-century Stroudley railway carriages. Sleeps 6, from £525 a week, Brockford Railway Siding, Suffolk Other period touches include a grandfather clock, iron bedsteads topped with patchwork quilts - and a harmonium. For our car, we removed a total of eight bolts and the seats were free, but you may consider having a professional help you out. There’s a wind-up gramophone in the claret-hued sitting room the kitchen has a traditional range and sink (along with an electric oven hidden away) and a pantry. The interiors are museum-like and crammed with authentic details. Guests are given NYMR membership for the week and half-price travel up and down the line, but they can simply curl up by the window in the old ticket office and watch the trains chug past. The last full-time signalman and station master decamped in 1946 and this traditional stone house is now a heritage-themed hideaway. You can almost imagine Jenny Agutter running down the platform waving her hankie. There’s a nostalgic Railway Children vibe to the old station master’s house overlooking the platform in Levisham, the most remote station on the North Yorkshire Moors steam railway (NYMR). Sleeps 2-6, from £605 a week, .uk Levisham Station House, Pickering, North Yorkshire There’s also a store cupboard of palm-oil free supplies – and three bottles of wine (a red, white and prosecco). Sleeping from two to six, they are furnished with items from Jacha’s travels, such as Moorish doors, Arabic rugs and chandeliers, along with artistically upcycled pieces: bare boards, feathered lamps, chapel chairs and the odd romantic roll-top tub. Mexican-inspired apartment 10 is boudoir-chic, with hot pink walls and striking artworks, while apartment four has a Mexican-made terracotta tiled floor. With his Welsh wife, Gwyn, Jacha Potgieter has turned this 19th-century station into a creative hub with a coffee shop, gallery and, on the first floor, five holiday apartments.ĭescribed as “honeymoonish”, apartment six is a bijoux bolthole with a bespoke metal headboard in the shape of angel’s wings, and a flower-fringed balcony looking out over the platform to the hills beyond. When a South African artist, photographer and environmentalist comes to Snowdonia national park and decides to turns his hand to restoration and interior design, the result is going to be interesting.
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