Severn Lodge

Sleeps 15-19 Forest of Dean

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Live in the grand English manner

The gardens pay homage to English roses in all their splendour. A bucolic vision in sandstone and Welsh slate, Severn Lodge sleeps 18 beneath the swallows and the empty skies, sitting in dominion over the verdant flow of rural Gloucestershire.

Made for a gin and tonic and a Jane Austen novel in the sunshine, the one-acre grounds offer sculpted, manicured box-hedging and lawn. Pick the plums from the orchard, fire up the barbie, take a front-row seat on the stars in the eight-seat hot tub.

Inside, everything’s designed for families or hens to recharge and regroup. Raid the basket of firewood to get the flames crackling in the sitting room, choose a movie to watch in the snug, play a little table tennis or table football in the games room.

Cook up daily delights on the Aga, or modern triple oven and hob. Eat al fresco in the clean rural air or around the long table in the panelled dining room. Pinch a good read from the bookcase. Book some in-house pampering. Bring your dog. Relax, refresh, reacquaint.

Gardens and grounds

There’s one acre of garden to explore plus two acres of grazing where you might see sheep or ponies against the backdrop of the River Severn. A picnic-friendly acre of English lawn, mature trees and box-hedging, with pears and plums in the orchard, and blackcurrants and raspberries in the fruit cage. If they’re ripe, help yourself.

Walk the lawns before lunch. Dig out the cricket and croquet gear. Eat al fresco with steak from the gas barbie and cold Prosecco from the fridge. Meet the ponies in the paddocks. Pile into the hot tub beneath the swallows and the big skies and soak up the silence.

Living spaces

If you can’t relax here, you won’t relax anywhere. Living spaces at Severn Lodge are a tribute to the owners flair for colour and design: a haven of chunky skirting boards, deep carpets, chandeliers and ceiling roses. Thick curtains skim the floor and the fire crackles as you settle in for the night with board games or blockbusters.

There are spaces here to relax and reacquaint with family, friends or hens. Or spaces to escape to, like the snug. Raid the bookcase or the DVD collection, or just put on your headphones and zone out awhile to Spotify. The wifi zips around with the help of extenders and there’s Netflix and Freeview on tap.

Head to the games room to compete over table tennis or table football, or let the younger kids play with the building blocks and the bears. Pick from two TVs for your evening entertainment, one 36” and one 55”. Or switch off and chat. Like the old days.

Severn Lodge’s spaces are a study in calm and serenity, a place to zone out from the world and tune in to each other awhile. Be as active or inactive as you wish. Book our chef, a pamper party or a murder-mystery night, or just bring a book and some music and relax your grip on life.

Cooking and dining

Make like Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall with fresh fare from the kitchen garden, apples, pears and plums from the orchard, and blackcurrants and raspberries from the fruit cage. Or get stuck in to hearty fare from the Severn & Wye Smokery and Hanley Farm Shop.

Eat around the long table that seats 16 in the supreme elegance of the panelled dining room. Or add the other table for enough chairs to feed a cricket match. Light the candles, butter the bread, pour the wine. Be together. Or go informal in the grounds and eat al fresco out on the terrace with steak from the gas barbie.

If lifting a finger seems just too hard, simply summon our chefs for a one-off celebration or fully catered break. Or just pop over the road en-masse to the traditional charm and roaring fires of The Globe. Will it be wild-boar pâté, Thai-spiced crabcakes, Wye-Valley ale-battered cod, or spinach and ricotta cannelloni?

Drive to Newland, to eat à la carte on lamb Wellington, rack of Welsh lamb or turbot fillet at The Ostrich. Head out to the Anchor Inn, right by Tintern Abbey, for fresh, locally sourced food in amazing surroundings. Or book well ahead for the taste of a Michelin star and four AA Rosettes at The Whitebrook in the Wye Valley.

Bedrooms

Severn Lodge comes with seven sumptuous bedrooms sleeping 15, plus four on sofa beds. In the clear country air, you’ll sleep on a cloud. Or at least on deep, comfy mattresses between crisp cotton sheets.

The main bedroom is the Cherry, with a superking-sized bed and large sofa bed. Freshen up in the luxury en-suite bathroom with shower and bath. The Hazel offers a kingsize and single bed plus en-suite bathroom with shower. And The Ash comes with en-suite shower bathroom and another superking that can be split into singles.

It’s a similar arrangement in the Willow, with a superking that splits into two, plus a sofa bed and en-suite bathroom with shower and bath. The Maple and Acorn are king-size rooms that share a shower bathroom. Finally, the Elm on the ground floor offers a king-size bed and en-suite bathroom with shower.