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The Coach House - Lea

Matlock, Matlock & Southern Peak District

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  • The perfect gathering space, with cosy, comfortable apartments and large communal areas.

You can book this property from:

  • £2,870 per week
  • £410 per night
  • 4 Star
  • 18 Guests
  • 6 Bedrooms
  • 4 Bathrooms
  • 3 Pets

Features

Nearby activities

  • Walking
  • Cycling
  • Watersports
  • Fishing
  • Golf
  • Pony trekking/horse riding

Special Features

  • WiFi
  • Smart TV
  • Countryside views

Beds & bedrooms

  • Bed linen provided
  • 5 king/super-king beds
  • 1 double bed
  • 6 single beds

Appliances

  • Dishwasher
  • Range/Aga

Bathrooms

  • 5 WCs
  • Towels provided
  • Bath
  • Shower

Families

  • Family friendly
  • Travel cot
  • Highchair

Outdoors

  • Garden or courtyard
  • Enclosed garden or courtyard
  • Private parking
  • Rural location

Accessibility

  • Ground floor bath/shower room
  • Ground floor WC
  • Ground floor bedroom

Important - please note

House Rules

  • If there are infants in your party, you may wish to bring baby monitors, as these do work across the site which is split into four apartments and a separate communal area.
  • Check in: 16:00
  • Check out: 10:00

Read the full Access Statement for this property.

Access Statement

Property Name: The Coach House

Property Location: Lea, Matlock

Description:

A full access guide is available for the property.  Please contact us to request this if required.

Description

The Coach House is an ideal gathering space, with comfortable apartments and a large communal areas. Whether you are bringing extended family together, searching for your next company meeting space or a friends’ get-together, this is a great space to enjoy as a group. Surrounded by fields, the property forms one wing of the stables around a courtyard, with the former coach house at the front providing the communal space.

The property is made up of four separate units/apartments, each accessed off the courtyard; three on the first floor with kitchens and washing facilities, one on the ground floor without a kitchen but with a shower room.  Full details of each of the apartments can be found below. 

The location is perfect. It is just on the border of the Peak District, with so many places to explore and something for all members of the family and all ages to enjoy. There is also a popular pub within 150 metres!

Sit at one of the picnic benches, bordered by olive trees, or set off on one of the numerous footpaths from the village. Get on your bicycle and head for the High Peak or Tissington Trails to pedal across the Peaks. Perhaps just drop down into Matlock to explore all the local shops, pubs and restaurants or stroll through Matlock Bath with its Victorian seaside feel and cable cars to The Heights of Abraham. Magnificent Chatsworth House or Bakewell with a traditional Monday market, Monsal Dale's dramatic gorge, Calver Edge's breath-taking views, Peak Rail's steam trains, Crich's nostalgic tramway museum and water sports at Carsington are all within easy reach. Some of the world’s most impressive stalactites and stalagmites can be found in Poole’s Cavern and the famous Blue John stone can only be found in Castleton’s caves.

THE COACH HOUSE

Accommodation for 18 split into four separate units.  Three of the units are apartments with full cooking facilities.  The remaining unit consists of a shower room and bedrooms.

THE PARLOUR:

Living Room: a spacious and light living/dining area, with lots of comfortable seating and a large dining table where everyone can gather.  There is a TV, WiFi and board games.

Kitchen: a well-stocked commercial style kitchen with range cooker, fridges, dishwasher, microwave  and plenty of crockery, cutlery and glassware for catering for larger groups.

Cloakroom: off the main living room with WC and basin.

Ground Floor Unit – accessed externally from the Courtyard: please note that this unit is the only part of The Coach House that does not have its own cooking facilities but The Parlour kitchen offers ample resources.

Bedroom 1: with king size bed, bedside cabinets and hanging rail storage.

Bedroom 2: with king size bed (can be made into 2 singles on request), an additional single bed and ample storage.

Shower Room: with shower cubicle, wash basin and WC.

BRIAR APARTMENT: a first floor apartment accessed via external staircase.

Living Room: with comfortable seating for four, a dining table and chairs, good sized TV and WifFi.

Kitchen: with electric oven and hob, microwave and fridge.

Bedroom: a family bedroom with king size bed, single bed and an additional pull-out single.

Kitchen: with electric oven and hob, microwave,

Bathroom: with rain head shower over a roll top bath, vanity wash basin and WC.

GRANARY APARTMENT: a first floor apartment accessed from the courtyard via an internal staircase.

Living Room: with comfortable seating, TV/DVD player and WiFi.

Kitchen Diner: with electric oven and hob, microwave and fridge; dining table and six chairs.

Bedroom 1: a family bedroom with king size bed, two additional singles and ample storage.

Bedroom 2: with double bed and storage.

Family bathroom: with shower over bath, wash basin and WC.

HORNBEAM APARTMENT: a first floor apartment accessed via external staircase.

Living Room: with comfortable seating, smart TV, WiFi, dining table and chairs for 3 people.

Kitchen: with electric oven and hob, microwave and fridge.

Bathroom: with roll top claw-foot bath with shower over, wash basin and WC.

Bedroom: with king size bed, storage and additional pull out single.

OUTSIDE

The courtyard itself is one of the outdoor areas for you to enjoy, as well as the seated benches with the olive trees to the front of the property, where you can enjoy the views to one side. There is a large, grassed garden at the front of the property and a gravelled parking area.

 A cot and highchair can be requested. 

Up to three dogs are allowed.  Pets must not be left unattended in the property. 

Some parts of the property may be suitable for people with disabilities, please ask for a copy of our full access guide.

Electric car charging is available at the following locations: Wirksworth, Tesco - Alfreton.

Nearest pub - 0.1 miles  Nearest local shop - 2 Miles  Nearest supermarket - 3 Miles.

Reviews

Great place to stay for a big family gathering. Pub just next door a definite plus. Lovely local walks and runs.

Mrs M,

As above really , was nice to have our own separate areas to sleep in

Mrs J,

Great house. Loads of space and perfect for our group size. Lovely garden and courtyard area. Really enjoyed our stay. Only minor point - blinds are thin so in the summer it is quite bright early in the morning!

Mrs C,

We loved our time here for a girls holiday! Lovely and clean and nice touches too. Would recommend! :)

Miss T,

We enjoyed the holiday and in general the facilities we used were good.

Mrs H,

Good: The Christmas decs & tree were lovely. The communal lounge was beautiful. Not so good: There was virtually no heat in a lot of the building. Very poor pressure & little hot water. Huge disparity between apartments. Ours had no drawers for clothing, 1 clothes rail between the 2 bedrooms (sleeping for 5) & 5 coat hangers so we lived out of our suitcases. One of our children had nose bleeds during the night & after 2 nights, we had to ask for more sheets. They didn’t have any so we stripped the bed & the owners mum in law took them away & washed them. Understandably, she wasn’t happy. This property is NOT 4*.

Mr M,

Location

LEA NEAR MATLOCK 

Lea is a small picturesque village situated high above the town of Matlock and the Derwent Valley. It is best known for being the childhood home of Florence Nightingale but it is also famed for its beautiful Rhododendron Gardens and for John Smedley’s woollen mill that exports fine woollen garments all over the world. The factory shop is well worth a visit!

The village is on the edge of the UNESCO Derwent Valley World Heritage Corridor that celebrates numerous links to the Industrial Revolution. Save a day or two to explore Sir Richard Arkwright’s water powered mill, Cromford’s heritage village that he built for the mill workers and leafy Cromford Canal and the Steep Incline that revolutionised industrial transportation. Other close by attractions include The National Stone Centre, The National Tramway Museum and Carsington Water.

Nearby Matlock Bath, known as Derbyshire’s Little Switzerland, is a fantastic rock-sided gorge with cable car rides, caverns, a lovely riverside promenade, rowing boats on the river and the Derbyshire Lead Mining Museum. If you are interested in motorbikes then go and see the gathering that happens every weekend. If not then pick another day when it’s a lot quieter.

Local Pubs: The Jug & Glass in Lea. The Gate in Tansley. The White Lion in Starkholmes. 

MATLOCK

Matlock used to be a thriving tourist destination in Victorian times when the railway reached the town and visitors used to come to take the ‘mild water cure’ in the many spa hotels. It still is very much on the tourist map being the ideal place from which to explore all the many local attractions but also a place that really ‘lives’ with independent shops, a couple of supermarkets and Dale Road with its numerous pubs, cafes and restaurants.

Set in a cauldron of hills, there are lots of days out to be had close by. Matlock Bath has got to be on your list. A 2-penny ride on a tram at the National Tramway Museum will take you back in time. Peak Rail’s trains steam up the valley to give you another taste of the past. And then of course you can explore Sir Richard Arkwright’s Industrial Revolution village at the head of the Derwent Valley World Heritage Corridor.

Matlock is in the centre of everything even when you look to the east towards Chesterfield because this opens up another vista of attractions. Chesterfield itself with its colourful market square is worth a visit. Hardwick Hall, of Bess of Hardwick fame, is not much further. How about storming Bolsover Castle’s battlements or being one of the ‘Merry Men’ in Robin Hood’s Sherwood Forest.

Local pubs - The Thorn Tree, Twenty Ten Bar and the White Lion in Starkholmes.

LOCAL WALKS

The Walk: There is so much to see on this enjoyable walk, which picks out many of the places associated with Florence Nightingale and her family, while exploring the lovely countryside around Lea.

From the Cromford Canal, you walk up the Nightingale Arm of the canal, built by Peter Nightingale the great uncle of Florence. It originally stretched to Smedley’s Car Park, where the second Peter Nightingale had a Hat Factory making military hats. The Nightingale family also founded the factory at Lea Bridge and had a lead smelting business nearby.

Leaving the road behind, the walk takes you through the grounds of Lea Hurst, where Florence and her parents lived during the summer months. Winter was normally spent at Embley House in Hampshire, much preferred by Florence’s mother, who found the social life more to her liking.

After climbing a flight of steps at Holloway, a series of fields are crossed to Lea, where the Jug and Glass Inn stands at the end of a terrace of former weaver’s cottages built by the Nightingales.

Smedley’s Mill was revitalised by the remarkable John Smedley, in the early 1800s; he went on to build and run the Hydro at Matlock Bank, and Riber Castle as a retirement home.

Lea Bridge Circular Walk: This is an interesting circular route that starts from Lee Bridge and takes you through Coumbs Wood, Brecks Wood, Beamore Wood, Patchett Wood, Lea Wood, and along the banks of the lovely Cromford Canal. This route may be muddy after rain, especially on the hilly sections, so waterproof shoes are recommended. You have to cross Lea Brook by stepping stones so this route may not be ideal for children or dogs.

There is a pub along the way if you wish to stop for refreshments. Make sure to stop and explore the historic sites along the way including St. John's Church.

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  • Sat: 9am - 8pm
  • Sun: 10am - 8pm
  • Bank Holidays: 10am - 6pm
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