Stone Cottage at Staveley

It was our third time at stone cottage ,the cottage is in a good central area for walking, the village has some lovely places to eat

Had a love stay loved the place from start to finish loved everything about the place spacious and clean and location great too I would definitely recommend

Stone Cottage is the perfect base from which to explore the Lakes.

The cottage is great if you have a dog - safe garden and many walks straight from the door. Staveley is a working village with everything you could wish for and the buzz that goes with it. We love it and love the fact it isn’t chocolate box perfection.

2nd time staying in Stone Cottage and just as nice as the first.

Cottage small but comfy & clean, garden great for our Jack Russell & conservatory was a big plus. Great location in a lovely friendly village with shops, cafes and a pub. Car stayed parked outside cottage whole time as the bus service was brilliant for getting around the Lakes. Would definitely recommend and return .

Clean and tidy when we did havw an ussue ir wqa dealt with that day

Cottage was lovely, location great only a few issues 1) the sofas not very comfortable 2) the mattress for me left with a bad back 3)noTV needed to be lowered to middle shelf so easier to watch 4)why was the smoke alarm in bedroom and not in hallway ?

? 5) Not a big fan of locked door upstairs hallway why ?? 6) wood burner instructions should be by the fireplace

Awful location…between the school and paper factory.

Really struggled to find a parking space near to property. Needs a new key safe, Had to wash all pots on arrival….they had been put away dirty. Traffic insanely busy, city level. Couldn’t do bin as neighbour on one side parks van in back garden, blocking exit. Neighbour on other side partied until 3.00 am on night of our arrival. Needs new mattress….no support at all. All in all a thoroughly depressing place.

We really enjoyed our time at Stone Cottage!

The place was lovely. It was the perfect spot to rest after a day of exploring the Lake District. We especially loved the woodburning fireplace. You could tell a lot of care had been put into this cottage. We'll be recommending it to any of our friends and family! We'd say that the cutlery and crockery could do with a scrubbing. A few of the items were a bit dirty. But, we didn't mind a bit of washing up ourselves. We still really enjoyed the cottage!

Just a lively place to spend time.

Garden great.House lovely.

Our second stay at Stone Cottage and it won't be our last.

We really enjoyed our stay at the cottage and also the village, which is perfect

Lovely cosy cottage in the village.

The cottage had everything we needed . We liked the conservatory. Very comfy bed in a large bedroom. Good shower . We were able to park outside on the street for the whole time. We used the local buses to get to Ambleside, Windermere and Kendal. We didn't find the chairs in the lounge that comfy but this didn't detract from our overall stay. We really liked the cottage and the village. There are some lovely walks from the door.Thank you.

Wonderful cottage in a perfect location.

Everything we needed and the welcome jam and bottles of beer were a lovely touch.

Lovely cottage in a beautiful location.

Cottage itself was small but very clean & well equipped with everything you would need. The conservatory was a big plus, lovely to sit with a glass of wine, looking out into a beautiful garden which define got the seal of approval from out Jack Russell. The village itself was great with places to eat and drink and no need to use the car as the bus service to the Lakes was brilliant. Would definitely recommend & return.

Really enjoyed Stone Cottage.

Very comfortable, great bathroom and everything we needed. Many thanks.

Very comfortable cottage in a lovely village which has everything you could need.

Lovely pub serving great beer and food, chippy, spa and cafes, what more could you want. Secure garden for those staying with 4 legged friends and nice walks straight from the cottage. Would happily stay again.

We enjoyed the stay and really liked the cottage and area around.

Unfortunately we had to leave on the Thursday (having only arrived on the Sunday!) but that was no reflection on the property itself, which was really nice.

Lovely cottage and well equipped.

Lounge area a little dark and lack of table lamps which would make the downstairs fell more homely. Only a minor comment as the cottage was lovely. On arrival it was nice to have a few local beers on the table but after a long journey may be a small milk bottle and a few biscuits would be nice. Loved it and would rebook.

Nice little cottage, clean.

Don’t think the bed is a king size as per the listing, dogs aren’t supposed to go upstairs which I can’t remember reading prior to booking but was stated in the handbook. Location handy for popping into Windermere and not far from Ambleside. Staveley is a small place, we visited the brewery whilst we stayed and also used the chip shop and pizza takeaway, both are excellent. We went for breakfast to Wilfs which was really nice.

A lovely cottage updated and well maintained.

We particularly liked the garden Ted loved chasing after his ball in this long pretty garden. Please note if you do have a dog that the other cottages have access into the garden. This was not a problem throughout our stay. Parking is on the road but again it was not a problem parking in front of the cottage . The bedroom was very big with a comfy bed. I could not fault this cottage and would happily stay again if staying in Staveley.

Overall, this is a lovely cottage that is generally well-equipped and in an excellent location.

Staveley is a lovely village to stay in. The following comments are just things to be aware of / for the owners to consider to really improve the experience of staying at Stone Cottage. Firstly, and most importantly, please replace the mattress and pillows as these are very uncomfortable. I also don't think the bed is king-sized as per the listing. Secondly, little things, but please leave more than one toilet roll for a seven night stay. It doesn't cost much to provide enough toilet roll for the week, but it's very annoying for guests to have to go and buy their own. Also, please provide a towel and/or kitchen roll for the kitchen. Also, for people with a dog, regarding the garden, people should note (as the listing doesn't) that: 1) the neighbours have a right of access through the back garden so can just walk through the garden if they need to. They only did once in the week to put their bin out while we were there. 2) the gate to the garden is a metal gate with gaps between the bars so if you have a very small dog, they could probably fit between these bars. Someone had commented that they had this problem in the guestbook. I didn't mean this to be a complaining review as we had a lovely week, but I just think these are small changes that could really improve people's stay or things that people should be aware of before booking.

Lovely cosy cottage with all the facilities you need.

Great secure garden too. Locality great for accessing other parts of the lakes. Our second stay and hopefully not the last. Fab ice cream shop in Staveley.

Very nice cottage, clean and maintained well, good location.

This is the second cottage we have stayed in through Sykes.

It is in the very nice village of Staveley in Cumbria. The cottage was very comfortable (especially the bed!) and clean. Everything we could possibly need was supplied in the kitchen. Beautiful rhododendron in the church grounds directly opposite to wake up to each morning!

Brilliant stay and couldn’t have asked for a better place.

Village had everything we needed and beautiful walks nearby

We love staying at stone cottages very homely and everything you need

Lovely location - really close to all the shops and amenities.

Was missing some basic necessities like olive oil, which would have been handy for cooking, and only 2 toilet rolls were provided for the whole week’s stay. The bed was comfortable and the garden was lovely - found the house to be quite dark though.

Great cottage Very welcome couple of beers and jam.

Everything you need is in the cute cottage. Close to the brewery and local pub.

We stayed for 3 nights and it wasn't long enough!

!! The cottage was perfect and had everything we needed. It was beautiful! The local village was a 5 minute walk with great amenities We enjoyed a lovely meal at the Eagle and Child. We were lucky with the weather one day so did the Dale's Way walk which was amazing. Close to other places too like Ambleside and Windermere. This was a perfect base and I didn't want to leave. Would highly recommend. It was beautiful

Wonderful cottage, well equipped, really helpful welcome book and extremely clean.

Village is a great location for exploring the lakes and bus service was efficient and reliable.

A short break in rainy Staveley in the Lake District was made more pleasant by the lovely light conservatory on the back which was well used during our stay for eating, relaxing and doing a jigsaw.

It was comfortable and well equipped with a secure garden for our dog. The on street parking is first come first served which could be a bit of a problem if you wanted to park your car outside your cottage.

A house with a surprise: a fine conservatory and a sunny, deep garden.

Miles of walking opportunities around and ample maps to discover them!

Lovely cottage in a gorgeous village.

Great garden for our dog Thoughtful welcome gifts of beer and jam. Fab base to explore the lakes. Windermere and Kendal easily accessible by train. Great pub and brewery, both do delicious food and chippy has fish to die for. Highly recommended

This was a beautiful cottage with every attention to detail.

The village was fabulous with a butchers, Spar, Post Office, amongst other great independent shops. There is also a train station and you can go as far afield as Glasgow and Edinburgh or London!! There are so many nearby towns, lakesides etc to visit it is a fantastic base for walking too. I would definitely recommend stone cottage and Staveley and would also return for a longer period.

Homely and cosy we will definitely be booking this cottage again great location and the added space with the conservatory and present garden.

We loved our stay.

Our third visit to Stone Cottage and still as charming and homely as ever.

We will be back!

We have just enjoyed a wonderful week away in the Lake District staying in a very cosy cottage in Staveley.

It was a real home from home, warm and welcoming. It had everything you could possibly need from a comfortable holiday home. It was spotlessly clean and extremely well equipped. The village was quiet and peaceful, with local shops, including fish and chips and an excellent bakery. We thoroughly enjoyed our stay and would highly recommend this lovely holiday cottage. Thank you.

Fabulous holiday - perfect cottage for two and paws, really well equipped, comfy bed, great compact kitchen (Neff oven with a sliding door *swoon*), great additional space with the conservatory (really useful in our wet week and no doubt divine in summer), enclosed and long garden for dogs, good shower and woodburner.

Staveley itself - amazing holiday base. Nice eateries (More Artisan Cafe and Bakery - divine dishes, cakes, sourdough and coffees; Mr Duffins coffee - roast their own beans, nice slabs of cake and really good coffee; Kimi’s Gelato - divine homemade ice cream, around 10 different flavours; Eagle and Child Pub - proper pub, fire, pub meals - divine cheese pie providing wet-weather comfort food at its finest and has a quiz night); Hawkshead Brewery taproom - great craft beer; Butchers - really good quality; Spa Shop with all the bits you might need; Chippy - again good quality). And most of the above - cafe/bakery, pub, brewery taproom, coffee shop and gelato shop are dog friendly and within 10 minutes of this cottage. As is a giant bike shop (more like a warehouse) full of kit, bikes, clothes etc. Then location… lots of lovely walks nearby - some right from the door, including some easy ones for our creaky legged dog; great location for keen cyclists - full of happy muddy folk in our wet week); has a train station so you can get really easily to Windermere (which has a big Booths) regular buses; good location for exploring that bit further into Grasmere, Ambleside etc. We love Staveley - grabbed our hearts - and this cottage is a perfect base, especially for dog lovers too. Thank you and thanks for the welcome gift of beer and jam - both enjoyed and that jam was so fruity and divine and perfect for the sourdough from More Bakery that I filled my face with all week!

Comfortable and cosy cottage nicely situated in interesting village.

Good walks, pub, cafés, artisan retail park with brewery. We have booked again for July. Only blemish is there isn’t a DVD player as advertised!

We had a fantastic time staying in Stone cottage .

The cottage is really cosy , clean and well equipped and the garden was fantastic too . There are some great walks from the cottage itself and windamere is only a 10 minute drive away . Staveley is a lovely , friendly village and we would definitely return.

Great property with everything we need for a relaxing break.

Because of adverse weather we spent more time in the cottage than we intended.

However the tv was not sited in a position where it could viewed easily. Also the log fire was not made up and ready to light. The best room by far was the conservatory where we ate, read a lot, and enjoyed the garden outlook.

Lovely week at Stone Cottage.

Property was comfortable and well equipped. Welcome gifts very well received. A few maintenance issues need addressing - toilet flush mechanism and broken bathroom tap handle.

Charming and very well equipped cottage in small village of Staveley, just a few minutes drive from Windermere.

House is clean and comfortable with a decent sized living and dining area, excellent kitchen with good oven and everything you need for a week self catering. Nice conservatory/sun room at the back. There is a long lawned garden at the rear which our greyhound enjoyed running up and down. Bike storage available in the lockable garden shed although there isn’t much space so you may struggle to fit more than one bike in there (particularly MTBs). Decent sized bedroom with large comfortable bed and plenty of storage/spare bedding. Amazing shower. DVD player advertised on Sykes but not present - not a problem for us but worth considering if the forecast isn’t good! Location wise, Staveley is a great choice for exploring the area. Only ten minutes drive (or 25 min cycle) to Bowness and similar to Kendal. The village has a Spar for essentials and a few cafes, also a large Wheelbase bike shop which is very well stocked. The Hawkshead Brewery is well worth a visit, excellent beer and live music on Sundays. We really enjoyed our week in Staveley and would definitely stay at Stone Cottage again if we return.

We had a lovely holiday in Stone Cottage, Staveley.

Perfect for a couple and a dog. Enclosed back garden but our skinny cockapoo squeezed through the bars in the gate and visited next door. Fortunately they saw the funny side and we used the bins to make it safe. The cottage is well equipped and comfortable and well placed for the village amenities, brewery, pub and cafes. Lovely walks locally and easy access to the main road to Windermere. Would definitely visit again.

Not as clean as when we stayed last year.

Crumbs left on worktops, dusty bedroom floor, dirty inside kitchen cupboards. Dog poo left on grass from previous guests. Pillow protectors needed as pillows are stained.

Very comfortable cottage,very clean.

Not always easy to park outside,very busy village.

Excellent cottage.

Really enjoyed our stay there.

The cottage was perfect for us it is a traditional style cottage with all the modern features you need to meet your needs today.

The village is great it has more than you would expect in the way of shops and the people are very friendly and welcoming. There are loads of places to visit within easy reach by car but there are also lots of walks. The garden is dog friendly and secure will be back for another visit soon.

Lovely property good garden for our dog.

The cottage was well equipped and was comfortable with a warm feeling

Really enjoyed our stay, the location and the garden for our four legged friend were the icing on the cake.

Very pleasant cottage, everything you could possibly need, really cosy. Would definitely book again.

We were really impressed with the cottage and would be quite happy to stay there again.

The accommodation and furnishings were very comfortable and the equipment making it a home from home - though a wok or deeper frying pan would be useful. Thank you.

We really enjoyed our stay the cottage was one of the best we’ve stayed in will be booking again for later in the year and also recommend to a friend who also wants to book the same cottage

Listed facilities included WiFi, iPod docking Station and Smart TV.

We had no WiFi all week so no Smart TV. I emailed you about it on the Thursday but didn't receive a response. There was no iPod docking station. The heating system didn't work properly because of the lack of WiFi. It came on at 3am in the morning on Thursday, Friday and Saturday mornings and I couldn't override the system. Even though there was a little postcard on the table saying please enjoy these gifts, there were none there. From the visitor book it seems like they were bottled beers and a jar of jam - so maybe whoever cleans the property decided to help themselves.

Had a wonderful time at this lovely cottage.

Arrived just after Storm Arwen to a Village power cut so the toasty wood burner was a godsend! Really well equipped, great modern kitchen - the oven is a fancy Neff one with a retractable door - and great shower. Lovely long garden which is secure for dogs and so nice to have the bright and light conservatory as an extra space too. Staveley is a fantastic base - great for walks, has super local shops (Kimi’s Gelato, Hawkshead Brewery, More Artisan Bakery and Cafe, Mr Duffins roasting their own coffee, proper butchers, Eagle and Child pub with roaring open fire). Really lovely owners too - we were very impressed when they got in touch directly to check we were okay as the power cut was for three days. They were very helpful as were the shops in the Village - we were offered hot water at Kimi’s, the pubs let us charge phones -really friendly place.

Lovely cottage, could do with replacing the sofa as it is really uncomfortable

Very accurate description.

Well equipped kitchen for self catering. Great location just wish we could have enjoyed the lovely garden more but it was too cold!

Perhaps mention that there is a factory to the side/bottom of the garden and that there is some noise from the factory, especially early in the morning (seem to start work at 6am) with fortlift trucks being driven past the front of the house.

We were totally taken aback by our beautiful cottage!

The garden was stunning and we loved the area. It was a perfect location to explore the Lake District.

Beautiful cottage, excellent location, everything we needed was there.

Loved the conservatory for eating and sitting reading. Met some lovely local people at the brewery, new friends for life! Thank you. Love it here, can’t wait to come back!