Description
Wooside is a rural retreat that offers luxury accommodation in a bespoke designed Gothic Victorian style house featured in & on the front cover of Self Build Magazine. It is peacefully set in 10 acres of garden, paddock & ancient bluebell woods in an area of outstanding natural beauty in a village location at Cripps Corner in East Sussex. Woodside is near to major tourist attractions, National Trust properties, castles like Bodiam & country houses & gardens like Great Dixter & only 15 minutes from the coastal resorts of Hastings, Rye & Camber & 10 minutes from the historic town of Battle.
Woodside’s main aim is to pamper their guests - to provide a wonderful relaxed & sumptuous environment with exquisite food cooked on a Heritage Range, including gourmet breakfasts & evening A la Carte banquets to be taken in the comfortable dining room or on the terrace, accompanied by a selection of aperitifs, wines, spirits and liquors. Woodside offers fabulous rooms with everything you could need, lots of "goodies" & wow factor bathrooms so you can indulge yourself.
The large vaulted Gothic Suite runs the entire top of the house & comprises bedroom with 7ft water bed, dressing room (which can accommodate two children in quality folding single beds) & En-suite bathroom with slipper bath, his & hers basins, dressing table, double power shower, shaver point, bidet & loo. Also TV with Sky, trouser press, hair dryer, complimentary tray & toiletries, bath robes & tea & coffee making facilities & mini bar.
The Cream Room has King sized bed with canopy drapes, Italian gloss bedroom suite with large round mirrored dressing table & private bathroom with double ended built in bath, his & hers basins, shaver point, bidet & loo. Also, TV with Sky, DVD, hair dryer, complimentary tray & toiletries, bath robes & tea & coffee making facilities & mini bar.
Woodside also offers a full Home Cinema with 9ft screen & Sky multi-room, DVD, WII & Playstation for guests to enjoy & a selection of games (including children’s games) & an Air Hockey Table.
Guests can also enjoy a Health Suite at a supplement of £10 per person per day, which comprises Infrared Sauna, Hot Tub & multi jet shower.
Guest may spend time walking in the grounds & woods or relaxing in the gardens. The area is excellent for walking & cycling & Woodside caters for guests wishing to take advantage of this.
Woodside also specialises in catering for children as well as in celebration breaks like birthdays, anniversaries etc & offers bespoke packages to accommodate these type of requirements – decorations, helium balloon, cakes, chocolates, champagne, floral bouquets in take home vases etc.
Please see the comprehensive website for further details & photos on all aspects of Woodside. Woodside looks forward to welcoming you.
For our continental guests we are happy to accept Euros.
NATIONAL TRUST ATTRACTIONS
Batemans - 15 minutes
Lamb House - 10 minutes
Scotney Castle - 30 minutes
Smallhythe Place - 25 minutes
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CASTLES
Battle Abbey - 10 minutes
Bodiam Castle - 10 minutes
Camber - 20 minutes
Hastings - 15 minutes
Herstmonceux castle & observatory - 20 minutes
Rye - 20 minutes
Pevensey - 25 minutes
Leeds - 50 minutes
Hever - 45 minutes
Scotney - 30minutes
CATHERDRALS & CHURCHES
Canterbury - 1 hour
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GARDENS
Bedgebury Pinetum - 20 minutes
Merriments - 10 minutes
Hole Park Rolvenden - 20 minutes
Great Dixter house & gardens - 10 minutes
Lamb House - 10 minutes
Pashley Manor - 20 minutes
Sissinghurst Place - 25 minutes
Scotney - 30 minutes
Sheffield Park - 45 minutes
Goddington Hall & gardens, Ashford - 45 minutes
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VILLAGES OF INTEREST
Rye - cobbled streets & antiques - 20 minutes
Hastings - old town has Castle, Aquarium, Museums, fishing, children's play park & amusements - 15 minutes
Tenterden - lovely old Medieval buildings & high class shops - 25 minutes
Afriston - quaint village with small shops
Tunbridge Wells - famous Spa town of historic interest - visit the pantiles area - 25 minutes - (also commercial shopping available at the opposite end of town)
Eastbourne - Airborne show in the summer & tennis at Manor Gardens, also great shopping, lovely sea front gardens - 45 minutes
Robertsbridge - Medeaval architecture - 10 minutes
Brighton - The Lanes - lovely speciality shops
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MUSEUMS
Battle - Abbey & Yesterday's World - 10 minutes
Rye Castle Museum - 20 minutes
Court Hall Winchelsea - 25 minutes
Fishermans museum - 20 minutes
Flower makers museum - 20 minutes
Batemans - 20 minutes
Smallhythe Place - 25 minutes
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BEACHES
Camber s&s - lovely s& dunes, best beaches for miles - 20 minutes
Hastings -pebbles - 15 minutes
Winchelsea - pebbles - 20 minutes
Hythe - s& - 45 minutes
Eastbourne - pebbles - 45 minutes
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RAILWAYS
Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch - 45 minutes
Bodiam steam railway - 10 minutes - take trip to Tenterden/Northiam
Kent & East Sussex - 10 minutes
Lavender Line - 35 minutes
Bluebell Railway - 50 minutes
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GOLF COURSES
Sedlescombe - 5 minutes
Dale Hill - 15 minutes
Beauport Park - 10 minutes
1066 Golf Club - 15 minutes
Battle - 15 minutes
Rye - 15 minutes
Weald of Kent - 25 minutes
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OUTDOOR PERSUITS
Knockhatch - dry ski slope, mountaineering - 40 minutes
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CLAY PIGEON SHOOTING
Willow Farm - 25 minutes
West Kent - 50 minutes
Northall CPC - 50 minutes
Detling - 50 minutes
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VINEYARDS
Sedlescombe - 5 minutes
Carr Taylor - 10 minutes
Chapel Down - 20 minutes
Lamberhurst - 15 minutes
Biddenden - 20 minutes
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ZOOS
Port Lympe - 50 minutes
Drusillas - 40 minutes
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AQUARIUMS
Underwater world - 15 minutes
Brighton aquarium - 1 hour
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FISHING
Hawkhurst - 5 minutes
Iden Wood - 15 minutes
Rye Nook- 15 minutes
Tenterden - 25 minutes
Wyl&s angling centre - 15 minutes
Decoy lake - 20minutes
Bewl Water - 15 minutes
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OTHER
Rye Heritage Centre - 20 minutes
Farm World - 10 minutes
Smugglers Adventure - 15 minutes
De La Warr Pavillion
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LOCAL EVENTS
Staplecross Bonfire celebrations -
Battle Bonfire
Lewes Bonfire
Robertsbridge Bonfire
Rye Bonfire
Airborne - Eastbourne
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THEATRES & CONCERTS
White Rock Theatre Hastings
Tunbridge Wells
Devonshire Park Eastbourne
Battle Abbey open air concerts
Leeds Castle open air concerts
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