TRACK WITH UNIQUE PROPERTIES
The Sky Den was built by William Hardie Designs with George Clarke throughout the second series of his imagination-catching Channel 4 programme George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces.
It is composed of three different shapes that each blend together the best of outdoors and indoors, taking in everything from the red squirrels in the trees around you to the sweeping river just below.
Set in the heart of the Calvert Trust within the Kielder Water & Forest Park and a short walk from the main activity centre, this is a must for wildlife lovers and adventure-seeking families alike. It will cost from £150 a night for four people. * All are available through cottages.com except the Lighthouse Keeper’s cottage which is a National Trust property and the Sky Den.
This National Trust owned white-washed cottage stands at the landward end of the Souter Lighthouse is truly eye-catching. It was built in 1871 to warn ships away from the dangerous rocks at Whitburn Steel. The lighthouse keeper and his family would have lived in this sea-view cottage which, after a careful restoration, has been transformed into a comfortable two-bedroom holiday home.
It costs around £300 for a three night stay there.
Here’s your chance to stay in a castle at a cost that is less than a king’s ransom. The accommodation available is actually the ground floor apartment of historic Brancepeth Castle, close to the UNESCO city of Durham.
It is one of the oldest castles in the north – its origins go back to Saxon times – but much of the exterior you see today dates from the ownership of the famous Neville family in the 14th and 15th centuries.
Quartermaster’s has a close association with the time that the army was in the castle when it was used as a military hospital during World War I and later the regimental headquarters of the Durham Light Infantry.
It costs around £258 for three nights.