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 Watermill Cottages
Hansel, near Slapton
Dartmouth
Devon TQ6 0LN
www.watermillcottages.co.uk
Five comfy old stone cottages, self-catering and dog-friendly, set around an eighteenth century former watermill and its shallow trout stream, in over thirteen acres of natural beauty in a secluded, traffic-free valley not far from the beach at Start Bay.
Each cottage was part of the watermill, its granaries and workers' cottages, built in the 1750s, and has thick stone walls, beams, a log burner and four have a private garden.
Rose Cottage was owned in the 1950s by Beryl de Zoete who was on the fringes of the Bloomsbury Set and closely connected with the Elmhirsts at Dartington Hall. Beryl de Zoete was a dance ethnographer, a writer and traveller, who like many of her peers 'lived in Squares and loved in triangles.'
The Gara Valley was home for thirteen years to Jack Butler Yates, Impressionist painter and brother of WB Yates. JB Yates was visited by many artists and writers in the valley, including Poet Laureate John Masefield, who set several poems and a children's novel, 'Jim Davis', in the valley.
There's a twenty-four hour nature channel right outside your window, no light pollution, no through traffic, no TV reception or mobile phone signal. And no trouser presses!
For further information and to see photos of the five cottages - Quack, Rose, Crownwheel, Mill and Barleycorn - and of the beautiful Gara Valley, please see Watermill Cottages' website at www.watermillcottages.co.uk
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