Downe Cottages provide a rare combination of private luxury cottages with an excellent leisure facility attached (spacious gym and spa plus a reading room available from 6.00 a.m. to 10.00 p.m. each day) located in the heart of the North Devon Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Whatever the weather it is possible to thoroughly enjoy your visit to North Devon with the combination of a warm and spacious cottage and the extensive leisure facilities.
This cottage is an excellent two bedroom holiday cottage on one level.
Jasmine Cottage was an old thrashing barn with walls dating from the 18th Century; each room has high vaulted ceilings which gives it more of a chapel look than a barn.
This cottage has fine views across rolling countryside to the Atlantic Ocean with garden table and chairs looking West over the Atlantic and is an ideal spot to watch our beautiful sunsets and clear starry skies.
The open plan living and kitchen area has two 2-seater sofas, a 32" digital television with D.V.D. player, an antique pine table with four dining chairs and a well equipped kitchen and includes a dishwasher, fridge/freezer, microwave, oven and washer/dryer.
The main bedroom has a double bed (5'6") and an en-suite shower room, the second bedroom has two single beds (3') and an en-suite shower room. Both bedrooms have two bedside tables, chest of drawers and a three quarter length mirror hung on the wall.
• Central heating in all rooms
• Communal gardens
• Includes all consumables
• Garage parking
• Bathrobes and slippers provided for adults
Gym & Spa Facilities at Done
The Gym
The Gym is open from 6.00 a.m. to 10.00 p.m. each day. It is beautifully located in the Atlantic Room and has views across fields out to Hartland Point and Lundy Island beyond. (Lundy Island is where the Atlantic meets the Bristol Channel.)
The gym is spacious, light and airy and equipped with aerobic equipment, free weights, an ab trainer, an exercise bench and exercise mats.
All of the aerobic equipment is either Life Fitness equipment
(including a treadmill, a cross trainer, a stepper, an upright cycle and a recumbent cycle) or Concept 11 equipment (a rower).
The gym is accessed through the Reading Room in the Conservatory. There is a raised area here overlooking the gym equipment with a seating for the less energetic to sit and admire their dynamic partners!
The Atlantic Room also houses a library and dvd collection for our guests to use.
French windows from the Gym lead out to a raised patio area with tables and chairs looking out to Lundy Island - another opportunity to enjoy the wonderful surroundings.
The Spa
The Spa consists of a spa bath (with seats for eight adults), a steam room (with seats for seven adults) and a sauna.
The Spa is open from 6.a.m. to 10 p.m. each evening (the spa bath is available from 6 p.m.) .
Gym Sweat Towels and Bath Towels for the Spa are provided and the cost of both Gym and Spa are included in the cottage rental.
Our home from home cottages provides lovely accommodation for a relaxing break throughout the year.
Visit Trip Advisor to read some of the wonderful reviews that past visitors to Downe have written. Those reviews are Downe's best advertisement - they are all genuine and show a consistent picture of lovely holidays at Downe.