23 Luxury holiday cottages with 8 bedrooms

If you like your outdoors wild and wonderful and your indoors calm and super luxurious, Hethersdale is for you. With the rugged Lake District around you and luxury accommodation, Hethersdale is made for carefree and special times with family and friends.

Tillbridge Hall has a true sense of grandeur with lofty, ornate ceilings, beautiful furniture and artwork. This Grade ll listed gem is a house for special celebrations, a house that captures a consummate blend of understated luxury and relaxed hospitality within its historic walls.

This ultimate super-luxe hideaway is set in a walled garden on a beautiful country estate in Suffolk. The grand hall with vaulted ceilings is perfect for gatherings and there’s an optional adjacent cottage for bigger groups. Magical, charming and unforgettable.

Owned by the same family since the 15^th century, Ebrington Manor is a beautiful Cotswold manor house. Situated amidst the orchards of a fruit farm in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, it is the very essence of rural England.

Step off the world for a while in this beautiful house, hidden in a forest vale. Newly built in 2021, Oak Vale is a picture of understated elegance in neutral tones and natural materials, utterly in harmony with its forest home - the ideal place to bring family or friends. 

This handsome Victorian vicarage is one of the most sumptuous places to stay in Cheshire. Still in situ are period details but you can also lounge about in the cinema room, work out in the gym, splash about in the heated indoor swimming pool or sink into the outdoor hot tub.

Shorecliff Manor might just be the perfect seaside holiday house for a gathering of family or friends. Sleeping up to 22 guests, it stands above a sandy beach, capturing the Norfolk light and serving up spectacular sea views.

Whatever the occasion, Longslade Hall rises to it. Gather all the generations for a family party, bring the girls for some pre-wedding zen time, or make it your base for an annual friends’ reunion. Behind the mellow Georgian façade, this is a house for having fun.

Only birdsong and the breeze through the trees - and perhaps the ‘hellos’ of the resident donkey – fill the air in these four acres. With self-contained properties dotted round the grounds, it’s like your own peaceful village at Parsonage House.

If you yearn to escape to a place of peace and beauty, stay at Combe House in the heart of Somerset. This country manor oozes old English charm and elegance, with marble fireplaces, antique furniture and family portraits, with lovely views from almost every room.

Whitebrook House is a country idyll almost equidistant between the Shropshire town of Whitchurch and the Welsh border. Take a break and enjoy the best of all worlds in a classic Georgian house with two acres of manicured grounds and gentle rural views.

Horseshoe House, just outside the beautiful city of Bath, is a house for celebrations. In a previous life it was a welcoming pub and now it has been restored above and beyond its former glory.

Dating back to the 17th century, Charborne Manor has been lovingly refurbished, blending the best of the old and the new. With space for up to 16 people, a host of playtime extras - including a tennis court, a wood-fired hot tub and a games room - it sets the scene for a dream holiday.

Belwick Hall is a proper country house; a glorious, Grade II listed property with a traditional knapped flint façade that puts it firmly in Norfolk. It greets you with a grand entrance hall, sweeping carved oak staircase and portraits on the walls. Gather your brood and surrender to its charms.

What a spot! This Scottish retreat, on ‘Argyll’s Secret Coast’ benefits from large bay windows that frame glorious views of the Kyles of Bute. Many of the rooms are suffused with the extraordinary quality of light that has drawn artists and writers to the west coast of Scotland for centuries.

White Gable House in Exeter is a Grade II listed property with modern monochrome interiors. It has a city address with lots of outdoor space, and it’s a minimalist home which feels cosy and welcoming. This story of contrasts, along with its proximity to the Devon coast, make White Gable House rather special.

With a centuries-old history, Netherstone Hall is a handsome Yorkshire hall, sumptuously refurbished for modern life.

It’s rare to find a large, luxury holiday home with direct access to the beach on England’s south coast. And even rarer to find it in such an unspoilt location as this. The sea truly is the star at Sea Star, and you will find yourself gazing out to it from almost every room.

Pretty villages, ancient hedgerows and a neighbouring 12-acre wild orchard surround this serene, Queen Anne-style property in the Waveney Valley in Suffolk. Feel the busy world drop away as you pull up on the drive.

Escape from the world amidst almost 10 acres of private gardens at Greyburn Hall. Close to the Lincolnshire Wolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Greyburn Hall is thought to be one of the last surviving Lincolnshire longhouses - with an added 18^th century facelift. It has now been sensitively restored for life in the 21^st century.

Penbridge House is worthy of a second look. Deep in the Somerset countryside with rural views in every direction, it’s also just a few fields from the world’s most famous music festival, Glastonbury.

Gorgeous views, period details and modern luxuries; Rosebriar House is a North Devon gem that you won’t want to leave. This characterful house, close to the coast, is perfect for a multi-generational family holiday.