Sandy Bay Cottage

For romantic breaks or first holidays with a little one, Sandy Bay Cottage will make your holiday dreams come true. It is a gem of a little stone cottage that sits on a wonderful resort in north Devon with incredible facilities and a sixteen-acre estate. The cottage offers a gorgeous open plan living space and one bedroom with a small cot room and a bathroom. Throughout, it is beautifully decorated in stylish Nina Campbell wallpapers and comes with gorgeous furniture including a lavish king-size bed.  

The resort amenities include an excellent heated swimming pool, all the more special for being only a few minutes’ walk from your doorstep. The pool is surrounded by smart cradle rope weave seats and day beds and offers changing rooms, toilets, and showers. The resort games room boasts table football, table tennis and a soft play area for little ones. The resort sits in its own pretty valley with sixteen acres of grounds sprinkled with lush lawns, gardens, sunken nature trails, ponds, meadows, an orchard, streams, an extensive kitchen garden and a greenhouse where you can pick yourselves something fresh and tasty to go with your alfresco dinner. If you bring your furry friend, you can enjoy five acres of dog walking field for off lead enjoyment or a favourite local dog walk to the charming dog friendly pub, the Hunters at Heddons Valley. There are over fifty animals on the estate and children enjoy helping out at feeding times. Beautiful peacocks wander around the grounds, the free-range chickens supply eggs and cute ducks live on three ponds. There is a small herd of alpacas, four pygmy goats, sheep, super cute piglets, guinea pigs and orphan lambs in the spring for children to bottle feed. There is also an outdoor playground with an amazing wooden pirate ship with decks, a tunnel, ship’s wheel, plank, and sand pit, a two storey wendy house with a built-in kitchen, furniture and a veranda and a wooden tractor, slide, trampoline, swings, slides and a climbing frame. Throughout the estate there are some wonderful views with lovely lounge furniture so that you can relax, captivated by the views with a sneaky bottle of chilled wine. The Lookout is one of these, also a perfect spot for early morning meditation or yoga. The huge one and half meter fire pit with benches is wonderful for sing songs and making marshmallow memories. The honesty shop stocks some wonderful goodies including delicious frozen Cook meals, barbecue packs from the local farm shop, tasty ice creams and marshmallows for toasting. Yoga classes take place all year long plus there are fun aqua aerobics sessions in the pool.

Though Sandy Bay Cottage does not have a private garden, there is bistro furniture in the courtyard that is for the exclusive use of Sandy Bay Cottage guests. There are two other little cottages in the courtyard so if you want to share your holiday with friends or other family, you could book Holdstone Cottage or Newt Cottage for them. We also feature the other cottages on the resort, Old Combe Barn, Broadsands Farmhouse, Combe Martin House, and Wild Pear House.

This exclusive resort is nestled in a lush valley near the charming seaside town of Combe Martin. It is the perfect place for a spot of switch off. Combe Martin enjoys blissful secluded sandy beaches, wonderful rock pools, dramatic coastal scenery, a picturesque harbour, quaint shops, cosy seaside pubs, water sports, the fabulous Combe Martin Wildlife and Dinosaur Park, an interesting museum and easy access to the stunning Exmoor National Park, North Devon’s Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and the famous Southwest Coast Path. Nearby, you can explore the sensational Hangman Cliffs, the amazing beaches of Broadsands, Wild Pear, Tunnels and Barricane, Lee Bay, the Woolacombe beaches, Putsborough Sands, Croyde and the magnificent Saunton Sands. There are fabulous attractions such as National Trust houses, the wonderful Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway and amazing activities including horse riding and coasteering. You will never tire of exciting, interesting and thrilling excursions in this wonderful area.

Sandy Bay Cottage enjoys a very warm, homely ambience. Sitting on smart slate flooring, the living room offers a sumptuous modern sofa and armchair, a Smart television for movies at the end of a busy day, a well-stocked bookshelf in case you forget to bring a holiday book, a wooden dining table and a modern, well-equipped kitchen. Laundry appliances are available for all three cottages in the courtyard in a separate laundry room.

The staircase leads up to the beautifully designed bedroom with its gorgeous designer wallpaper and lavish king-size bed, adorned in luxury linens. The cot room with a wooden cot sits just off the bedroom and a separate wet room styled bathroom with marble tiles and a marble sink is next door. This is a wonderful cottage for two or perhaps three with a little one. You will relish in its beauty and be itching to explore the resort’s sixteen acres and its brilliant facilities.