• Sleeps up to 8
    in 4 bedrooms
  • Gwithian 8 minutes
    Praa Sands 20 minutes
  • Woodburner,
    underfloor heating
  • Big garden with
    trees and rope-swing
  • Large multi-car
    parking area
  • Green electricity, organic
    linen and composting
  • Dog
    friendly

Wildwood Cottage is an elegant country house with Georgian proportions, set in a sunny garden with a large lawn and a small wood, on the edge of a village and a ten-minute drive inland from Gwithian and St Ives bay. Wildwood Cottage makes a great base for families or groups of friends, so we’ve kitted it out for comfort, conversation, cooking and chilling out. You’ll find a kitchen-to-die-for, underfloor heating and a wood-burner, big leather sofas and sink-in beds — plus a big-screen room for film nights when you get back from the beach, or are bored of having barbeques and playing on the giant rope-swing in your very own woods.
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The facilities

  • Big well-equipped kitchen
  • 43” flat screen TV & DVD player
  • Family bathroom
  • Entertainment room
  • Toy chest
  • Library of books and DVDs
  • Hi Fi with iPod plug-in
  • Original art and old prints
  • Loads of car parking

The accommodation

You’ll approach Wildwood set slightly apart from the villages of Carnhell Green, Wall and Reawla — pull the car in through the gates of your large walled parking area, step in through the porch and you are in a generously sized kitchen and dining room. It’s real cook’s kitchen with a fab Rangemaster cooker (six rings and a double oven), beech wortops, and big central prep-area and lots of good chef’s tool so you can really have fun. You’ll like the big US style fridge-freezer too, with its ice-maker and water-chiller. Underfoot is a slate floor with underfloor heating too. The dining table accommodates six as standard, but will easily sit eight.

Across the hallway (with it’s beautiful and original mosaic tiles floor) is the sitting room. Stripped wooden floor, two big leather sofas, a wood-burner and TV — a place to relax and enjoy company. Step through a door and you are in the entertainment room. It’s a snug, a film-room, and a library. We’ve fitted a 43″ flat-screen and a Blu-ray player, so bring your favourite films and spend some nights in.

Head upstairs around the elegant staircase and past the multi-coloured window and the bedrooms and bathrooms are situated off the landing. You have versatile accommodation for up to eight in four bedrooms:

- two good-sized double rooms, one with an en-suite shower-room.
- one triple room (with a bunk-bed and a single)
- one small single room, looking out over the garden.

And of course the bathroom. It has a big walk-in shower, a romantic slipper-bath, and a nice atmosphere.

You'll find

  • Large grassy lawn
  • Webber BBQ
  • Garden furniture
  • Secluded sunny corners
  • Big trees and an epic rope swing

The garden

Wildwood had a generous grassy lawn which meanders to a garden which is, as the name implies, wild and woody. Sharp eyed arborialists may spot holm oak, sycamore, ash, western red cedar, beech, fig, apple, hawthorn, hazel, eucalyptus, hemlock and norway spruce.

Also in the woody area you’ll find the odd log and branch that may lend themselves to den-building or adventurous play. Some of the trees are climbable (at your own risk!) and we have a rather fab rope swing (please be careful!).

We love

  • Sharing meals in the big kitchen
  • Barbecues on the lawn
  • The Georgian proportions
  • Solar-powered hot water
  • Huge wood-burner
  • The woody woods
  • The big rope swing

The wow factor

Wildwood may not be right by the sea, but it more than makes up for it in lots of other ways. It’s a lovely house — frankly it feels slightly posh, but at the same time it’s not big or overwhelming. For keen cooks the kitchen may be the best feature; with the Rangemaster ‘Kitchener’ and big US-style fridge, marble pastry surface, beech work-tops and French farmhouse sink. We hope you’ll like the three big Bosch solar panels on the roof, and the way the wood-burner boosts the hot water (you can have totally carbon-neutral showers here). Then again children of all ages may think the garden is the best bit… or the big screen… or the old-style bath. As well as being a great spring and summer retreat, Wildwood comes into its own in the autumn and winter, with its cosy woodburner, underfloor heating in the kitchen and dining area, entertainment room and comfy bedrooms.

People tell us that Wildwood feels like a home from home in Cornwall, and we’d have to agree.

What guests said…

“…we had a magical week here. The house has a great atmosphere and we’ve enjoyed every aspect with fairy tea-parties, bbq’s, games of charades and cosy fires – thank you so much, we’ll be back!”
~ Chris and Ali – August 2011

“There are cottages, there are houses… and then there are places that feel like home!”
~ The Speddings – September 2011

“Wildwood is a lovely family-friendly home – there were three generations of us here, and a dog, and we all had plenty of space. Thank you for creating such a lovely home, not just a holiday let. We’ll be back.”
~ Justine, Mark, George, Scarlett, Pat and Frank, and Freddie the dog – October 2011

2012 availability (Friday changeover):

  • January 2012
  • 6 – 13£450
  • 13 – 20£450
  • 20 – 27booked
  • 27 – 3£450
  • February 2012
  • 3 – 10booked
  • 10 – 17booked
  • 17 – 24£450
  • 24 – 2£450
  • March 2012
  • 2 – 9£450
  • 9 – 16£450
  • 16 – 23£500
  • 23 – 30booked
  • 30 – 6£790
  • April 2012
  • 6 – 13booked
  • 13 – 20£750
  • 20 – 27£650
  • 27 – 4£650
  • May 2012
  • 4 – 11£750
  • 11 – 18£790
  • 18 – 25£850
  • 25 – 1booked
  • June 2012
  • 1 – 8booked
  • 8 – 15£990
  • 15 – 22booked
  • 22 – 29£1150
  • 29 – 6£1150
  • July 2012
  • 6 – 13£1350
  • 13 – 20booked
  • 20 – 27booked
  • 27 – 3booked
  • August 2012
  • 3 – 10£1350
  • 10 – 17booked
  • 17 – 24booked
  • 24 – 31booked
  • 31 – 7booked
  • September 2012
  • 7 – 14£820
  • 14 – 21£780
  • 21 – 28£740
  • 28 – 5£700
  • October 2012
  • 5 – 12£670
  • 12 – 19£640
  • 19 – 26£750
  • 26 – 2£750
  • November 2012
  • 2 – 9£550
  • 9 – 16£550
  • 16 – 23£550
  • 23 – 30£550
  • 30 – 7£550
  • December 2012
  • 7 – 14£550
  • 14 – 21£550
  • 21 – 28£1200
  • 28 – 4£1200

Set between village and woods…

The postcode is TR27 5HA, or you can find the exact Google location at 50.183322, -5.349303. It will be easy for you to find Wildwood - but once you are here you can be as hidden away as you choose.

Carbon offsetting

Cornwall is a beautiful and unspoilt place, but like all coastal areas, and indeed the ecosystem of the entire world, it is under threat from climate change. You may already have joined the millions of people worldwide who make their holiday and business travel carbon neutral by contributing to a carbon offsetting scheme. Here is a link to one of the best, the World Land Trust (given top marks in a recent Which report). On the site you can use the simple Transport Calculator on the home page, and make your holiday carbon neutral by contributing to a conservation project or tree-planting scheme www.carbonbalanced.org