Find self catering and cottages with a pool - indoor or outdoor - in South East England

Martingale Cottage, Newtown, Berkshire, South East England

Sleeps 6
Weekly price range £600 to £899

Self catering accommodation in Newtown sleeps 6.

Features include: • Pool • Open Fire or Woodburner Stove • Short Breaks • Pets allowed • Pub nearby • Detached • Sleeps 6

Accommodation overview: Enjoying fine countryside views, this peacefully located, and spacious detached house lies within the grounds of the owner’s home, and has shared use of a heated swimming pool and tennis court. There are pleasant walks direct from the door, and for excellent shopping and leisure facilities – as well as racing – Newbury lies 5 miles away. Local places of interest include Donnington, Highclere Castle, and the Watermill Theatre. London, Oxford, Bath, Salisbury, Winchester and the New Forest are all within an hour’s drive. Shop 11/2 miles.

Large living room with open fire, sofa-bed (for + 2) and French doors to garden. Spacious well-equipped farmhouse-style kitchen/dining room with tiled floor, table football and French doors to garden. Cloakroom and toilet. First floor: Double bedroom with 5ft bed and TV. Twin bedroom (beds can form 6ft double). Bathroom with over bath shower and toilet.

Yew Tree Cottage, West Meon, Hampshire, South East England

Sleeps 2
Weekly price range £300 to £599

Self catering accommodation in West Meon sleeps 2.

Features include: • Pool • Short Breaks • Pub nearby • Sleeps 2

Accommodation overview: Set along a country lane, these attractive and skilfully converted self catering holiday cottages offer a very good specification of holiday accommodation, and being single storey, they are suitable for all ages. They lie within beautiful rolling countryside and farmland, within the grounds of a working farm, next door to the local pottery. Offering plenty of light, they have been tastefully refurbished, furnished with guests’ comfort in mind. Spacious, open-plan Church View is wheelchair-friendly with large windows to take advantage of the superb countryside views. These pet friendly properties enjoy shared use of a large lawned garden and direct access to miles of scenic walks. Just under a mile from the quaint village of West Meon with pubs serving fine fayre, and where the founder of Lords cricket rests. Within easy reach are the glorious South Downs, Portsmouth and Spinnaker Tower, waterside dining, extensive designer shopping, ferry trips to the Isle of Wight, Winchester Cathedral, Southampton with its extensive maritime history, the vast heathland walks and riding in the New Forest, historic Chichester, beaches at Witterings or Hayling Island. London is about an hour by train from nearby Petersfield. Shop and pub ¾ mile.

Cheverton Farm - Brummell Barn, Shorwell, Isle of Wight, South East England

Sleeps 11
Weekly price range £1300 to £

Self catering accommodation in Shorwell sleeps 11.

Features include: • Pool • Short Breaks • Pets allowed • Pub nearby • Games Room • Sleeps 11

Accommodation overview: Nestling in the beautiful Bowcombe Valley, just 4 miles from the nearest south coast beach, are these two properties. Brummell Barn is one of the original outbuildings to Cheverton Farmhouse, converted to provide highly individual and spacious accommodation. Boasting a wealth of interesting and original features, the barn has a splendid galleried sitting-room with beamed, vaulted ceiling enjoying lovely views over the surrounding countryside from its south-facing window. West-facing windows overlook the farmyard. Set close to the owner’s home on their mixed sheep, beef and arable farm, Brummell Barn has its own enclosed terrace with garden furniture and barbecue and Wendy house. Cheverton Farm Cottage is attached to the owner’s 17th-century home, with beams throughout. It has a large garden, and patio with garden furniture and barbecue (note: entrance is from the side door, not shown in photograph). With access to 550 acres of meadow and arable land adjoining forest and down land walking trails, visitors also enjoy shared use of a trampoline, swings, climbing frame, slide, games room with table tennis and air hockey, fitness room and a separate room with full-size billiard/snooker table (for adults) and darts, as well as use of the family’s indoor heated swimming pool. With dogs, ducks, chickens, goat, cattle and pony to visit, children will enjoy watching the varied farming activities (lambing in April). This is the perfect base for a family holiday, offering all the peace and quiet of the countryside combined with bathing beaches and a mild sunny climate.
Shorwell, with its thatched stone cottages and Jacobean houses is 1 mile, while all the island’s popular seaside resorts are easily reached by a circular coastal road. Sandown and Shanklin, on the east side, have fine sandy beaches and Ventnor, at the southern tip, with its Botanic gardens, is huddled between steep, wooded cliffs. Surfing on south coast. From the farmhouse, para-gliding, riding and golf can be arranged (at cost). Shop and pub serving food 1 mile.

Stonehouse Farm Cottage, Crowborough, East Sussex, South East England

Sleeps 2
Weekly price range £300 to £599

Self catering accommodation in Crowborough sleeps 2.

Features include: • Pool • Short Breaks • Pets allowed • Pub nearby • Detached • Garden • Sleeps 2

Accommodation overview: Converted to a high standard, this attractive holiday cottage resides within 60 acres of woodland and fields with abundant wildlife and is accessed via a mile long track. Single-storeyed and detached, it makes an ideal base for fishing (with access to carp ponds) and walking within the High Weald, an AONB. Royal Tunbridge Wells is 7 miles, Groombridge Place Gardens and the Enchanted Forest 5 miles and the Bluebell Railway 7 miles. Easy access to London by train (about an hour). Riding, rock climbing and golf locally. Motorbikes are welcome. Shop and pub 1 mile.

Step up to spacious living/dining room with gas ‘wood burner’, oak floor and two sets of French doors to decked balcony. Kitchen. Double bedroom with 6ft zip & link bed. Bathroom with over-bath shower and toilet.

Morphews Cottage, High Hurstwood, East Sussex, South East England

Sleeps 6
Weekly price range £900 to £1299

Self catering accommodation in High Hurstwood sleeps 6.

Features include: • Pool • Open Fire or Woodburner Stove • Short Breaks • Golf nearby • Detached • Sleeps 6

Accommodation overview: This picturesque holiday cottage of period origin, situated in a tranquil setting on the Ashdown Forest at the end of a row, is located on the Wealden Way in the Sussex High Weald AONB. Tastefully furnished with a large open fireplace it has an enchanting garden featured in Amateur Gardening magazine. Brighton, 22 miles, Eastbourne, 24 miles. Shop 3 miles, pub 1/2 mile.

Five steps to entrance. Step down to beamed living room with French door and open fire. Dining room. Kitchen/breakfast room. Utility/separate toilet. First floor: Two double bedrooms, one with en-suite bathroom with shower attachment and toilet. Twin bedroom. Bathroom with shower attachment and toilet.

Rockley, Tuesnoad, Kent, South East England

Sleeps 8
Weekly price range £1300 to £

Self catering accommodation in Tuesnoad sleeps 8.

Features include: • Pool • Short Breaks • Detached • Garden • Sleeps 8

Accommodation overview: Potts Farm Oast offers guests a unique opportunity to stay in a spacious twin round kiln oast house surrounded by grassland farms with access to footpaths across the fields. Once used for drying fresh hops before they were sent to the brewers to flavour the beer, it has now been thoughtfully restored and makes an ideal holiday destination for two families, an extended family or groups of friends to enjoy the beautiful Kentish countryside and discover why it holds the title of ‘The Garden of England’. Stroll through the fields and picnic in the garden in the summer or take a brisk walk in winter and then return to curl up in front of the inviting wood-burning stove. To keep guests amused, there is a games room/snug in the roundel with board games and puzzles, and outside there is an enclosed lawned garden beside the oast with children’s play equipment and an open-fronted barn. If time permits, explore Tenterden – aptly described as ‘The Jewel of the Weald’ with its weather boarded tea shops and cottages. Take a magical ride on the Kent and East Sussex Steam Railway to the medieval moated castle at Bodiam. Sample the local award-winning wines at Chapel Down Winery, visit Sissinghurst Castle Gardens (National Trust) created by the novelist - Vita Sackville west and Sir Harold Nicolson in the 1930s. Rye is a 30-minute drive. Beaches and sand dunes at Camber Sands are a 40-minute drive. Shop, pub and restaurant 11/2 miles.

Step down to spacious living room with wood-burning stove. Morning room. Spacious kitchen/dining/family room. Utility/boot room. Games room/snug in roundel. Separate toilet. First floor: Step up to double bedroom with en-suite bathroom with over-bath shower and toilet. Three steps up to double bedroom in roundel. Three steps up to twin bedroom in second roundel. Double bedroom. Twin bedroom. Bathroom with over-bath shower and toilet.

Stocks Farm Oast, Wittersham, Kent, South East England

Sleeps 8
Weekly price range £1300 to £

Self catering accommodation in Wittersham sleeps 8.

Features include: • Pool • Short Breaks • Pets allowed • Pub nearby • Games Room • Sleeps 8

Accommodation overview: Rockley a former oast house, parts of which date back to 1740, is situated in the small hamlet of Tuesnoad near Bethersden. Providing a very high standard of holiday accommodation with oak and slate floors, a delightful decked terrace accessed via French doors leading off the spacious breakfast room, with a cosy log-burner for chilly evenings and some beautiful exposed beams. Set in spacious well kept grounds with a children’s play area, tennis court and fenced heated swimming pool with changing facilities, it provides ideal accommodation for friends and family groups. This is “Darling Buds of May” territory and every year at Pop Larkin’s Farm close by a classic car show is held for a perfect family day out. Also close by is a 40 acre reindeer centre – a magical visit at Christmas time. Ashford International is only a short car journey away for trips to Paris or Brussels! Other places to visit include Tenterden, the Jewel in the Weald, Biddenden Vineyard which produces wine, cider and apple juice and offers tastings. The South of England’s Rare Breed Centre provides a wonderful opportunity for children to become more “hands on” with the animals, or take a trip on the Kent and East Sussex Steam Railway. For those looking for something different try a ghost tour around Pluckley, the most haunted village in England according to the Guinness Book of Records. Shop and pub 11/2 miles.

Spacious living room with wood-burning stove and oak floor. Dining room with oak floor. Kitchen/breakfast room with French doors to terrace and oak floor. Separate toilet with slate floor. First floor: Double bedroom with en-suite shower room and toilet. Double bedroom (6ft zip and link). Double bedroom. Twin bedroom. Bathroom with shower attachment and toilet. Some exposed beams throughout.

The Lighthouse, Herne Bay, Kent, South East England

Sleeps 9
Weekly price range £1300 to £

Self catering accommodation in Herne Bay sleeps 9.

Features include: • Pool • Pets allowed • Beach nearby • Detached • Garden • Sleeps 9

Accommodation overview: A truly unique property set back on the cliffs with its own balconied ‘look out’ commanding outstanding views of the coastline and North Sea. The Lighthouse provides stylish holiday accommodation with sea views from almost all the rooms, has an enclosed garden with direct access down the cliff path to the beach and also a sheltered outdoor, heated swimming pool which is securely fenced.
Visit Reculver Country Park which offers lovely walks from Bishopstone to the ruins of a Roman fort and Saxon church.
The Towers were taken over by Trinity House to keep them as a landmark for sailors. The Country Park is renowned for its migrating birds boasting more than 150 different species. Cycle along the coast path from either Birchington or Herne Bay.
Herne Bay is 3 miles has clean beaches and is ideal for windsurfing, sailing and jet skiing. Take a boat trip from here to see the dolphins and seals. Visit Wildwood Trust on the edge of the Forest of Blean, discovering Britain’s changing wildlife. The historic city of Canterbury is approximately 10 miles. Shop 1 mile.

Spacious living room with gas ‘wood burner’, wooden floor and sea views. Dining room with wooden floor, sea views and patio doors to decked terrace. Well-equipped kitchen with gas range (for cooking), breakfast area and doors to decked terrace. Utility room. Separate toilet. First floor: Double bedroom with en-suite shower room and toilet. Bunk bedroom (lower bunk is double bed) and sea views. Double bedroom. Twin bedroom. Bathroom with over-bath shower and toilet. Steep stairs to balconied ‘lookout’.

The Oast House, Nutley, East Sussex, South East England

Sleeps 8
Weekly price range £1300 to £

Self catering accommodation in Nutley sleeps 8.

Features include: • Pool • Short Breaks • Pub nearby • Detached • Sleeps 8

Accommodation overview: Hidden down a forest track, leading directly to the Ashdown Forest (400 yards) and with spectacular views over the forest to the South Downs beyond, this delightful holiday cottage adjoins a former 18th-century threshing barn, lovingly restored by the owners. Terraced gardens lead down to a 5-acre meadow and stream, with four well-stocked fishponds. Abundant wildlife. Excellent walking country. Within easy reach of Brighton, Tunbridge Wells, many NT homes, gardens and places of interest. Shop 1/2 mile, pub 3/4 mile.

Entrance through stable door to beamed living/dining room with slate floor and forest views. Compact farmhouse-style kitchen. Double bedroom with en-suite shower room and toilet, and courtyard view.

Butlers Farm, Saffron Walden, Essex, South East England

Sleeps 11
Weekly price range £1300 to £

Self catering accommodation in Saffron Walden sleeps 11.

Features include: • Pool • Open Fire or Woodburner Stove • Detached • Sleeps 11

Accommodation overview: Park Field House has been recently renovated and now affords every comfort for an enjoyable and relaxing holiday, perfect for family celebrations or get together with friends. Providing bright spacious accommodation this detached house, with unspoilt view over open countryside, is well equipped with excellent facilities including an outdoor heated swimming pool and tennis court in the enclosed lawned garden. Set on the owners farm a stay here will provide the opportunity to enjoy rural life including long walks on numerous footpaths directly outside the house, bird watching and cycling whilst offering the convenience of being just a few minutes walk from the centre of the picturesque village of Topperfield on the Essex/Suffolk border. Within easy reach are numerous nearby attractions including Constable Country, Lavenham, Castle Hedingham with Britain’s finest and best preserved Norman keep, and the market town of Sudbury, home of the artist Gainsborough. A short drive away are the Colne Valley railway and museum and Gosfield Lake which offers 18 hole golf, water skiing, fishing and nature walks. Also within an easy drive are historic Cambridge, Newmarket for a day at the races and Colchester which is Britain’s oldest recorded town with a castle, museum and zoo.

Spacious living room with wood-burning stove and French doors. Spacious dining room with wooden floor and French doors. Kitchen with breakfast area, electric Aga (for cooking) and tiled floor. Utility. Games room. Single bedroom with additional pull-out bed (for +1). Separate toilet. First floor: Double bedroom with 5ft bed, dressing area and en-suite bathroom with separate shower cubicle, toilet and bidet. Further double bedroom. Twin bedroom. Single bedroom with additional pull-out bed (for +1). Bathroom with over-bath shower and toilet.

The Orchard, Northiam, East Sussex, South East England

Sleeps 13
Weekly price range £1307 to £3162

Self catering accommodation in Northiam sleeps 13.

Features include: Non Smoking • Indoor Pool • Pub Close By • Short Break • Pet Friendly

Accommodation overview: A majestic family home complete with an indoor heated swimming pool The Orchard sits in an acre of land which includes a private paddock for outdoor pursuits. Sitting in a picturesque location in Northiam adjacent to the last rolling meadow of East Sussex as it joins the Kent border The Orchard is perfectly located for exploring the many treasures of Kent and East Sussex. There is a steam train just a few hundred yards away serving the Rother Valley with stops at Tenterden and Bodiam. Alternatively Bodiam Castle can be visited by taking a gentle boat trip or more traditionally by car. The village features the Church of St Mary’s which dates back to 1090 and the Great Dixter Tudor House and Gardens are just 0.25 miles away. There are many places to explore including Hawkhurst Sandhurst Beckley and a little further afield are Hastings Tenterden and Camber Sands. Spacious sitting room with open fire. Second sitting room with double sofa bed (for +2). Dining room. Kitchen with dining area. Cloakroom/WC. First floor: Double bedroom with en-suite bathroom/WC with separate shower cubicle. Double bedroom. Three twin bedrooms (zip and link can be 6’ double) two with en-suite shower room/WC. Single bedroom. Bathroom/WC with separate shower cubicle.

Phone enquiries: 0844 847 1143

The White House Estate, Little Laver, Essex, South East England

Sleeps 14
Weekly price range £1300 to £

Self catering accommodation in Little Laver sleeps 14.

Features include: Hot Tub • Pool • Short Breaks • Detached • Sleeps 14

Accommodation overview: Ideally situated in the heart of the small historic market town of Ongar, this 18th-century coaching inn has the unique feature of its own lounge bar complete with snooker table, bar billiards, table football and large plasma Sky TV to watch the match on. In addition to the lounge bar the remaining accommodation in the Bell has been stylishly modernised and furnished to provide large individually decorated bedrooms, a spacious first floor living room with vaulted ceiling and wood-burning stove and a large kitchen breakfast room on the ground floor, there is even a dumb waiter to send the food from the kitchen to the dining room. French doors from the breakfast room lead to a large secluded walled garden, with a further second area of garden and table tennis table. The ideal venue for a family celebration or a get together with friends, the property is well positioned to explore the surrounding picturesque villages of Essex and is just a short drive from Epping tube station providing quick access to the heart of London where holidaymakers can spend a day sightseeing the delights of the capital city, take in a show or shop in Bond Street. Ongar High Street has a wide range of individual shops and restaurants (no need of a pub) and still has a Wednesday market; it is also conveniently located for Cambridge and Stansted airport via the M11. Shops 20 yards, pub and restaurant 500 yards.

Sitting room with open fire. Spacious kitchen with vaulted ceiling, tiled floor and French doors. Games room with bar. Double bedroom with French doors and en-suite bathroom with separate shower cubicle and toilet. Separate toilet. First floor: Large living/dining room with wood-burning stove, vaulted ceiling, Velux windows and wooden floor. Four double bedrooms, one with en-suite shower room and toilet. Twin bedroom. Bathroom with Jacuzzi bath, separate shower cubicle, bidet and toilet.