Accommodation

Overview

Thorney Mire Barn is a large, comfortable home with luxurious accommodation designed specifically with our guests in mind.

Each guest bedroom is light and spacious. Each has an en-suite with bathrobes, sumptuous towels and luxury bathroom toiletries from Molton Brown.

In the dining room, the three south-facing windows provide a superb back-drop for a leisurely breakfast of home made muesli, fresh fruit, freshly made bread and preserves and of course a full English breakfast made with local award winning ingredients. See the Our Food page for more mouthwatering details!

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The Dining Room

The dining room furniture is hand built from British oak and there are matching upholstered carver chairs.

The view from the three south-facing windows provides a superb back-drop for a leisurely breakfast of home made muesli, fresh fruit, freshly made bread and preserves and of course a full English breakfast made with local award winning ingredients.

Please see our Slide Show for more photographs

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The Garden and Grounds

The garden is south facing and is bordered by farm land. There are two patio areas, that between them benefit from the sunshine all day long. Both patios have hard wood furniture including reclining steamer chairs and gazebos to offer shade.

There are decorative borders but the main central area is given over to raised beds for growing vegetables and fruit.

All guests can easily access the main garden and the Garden Room has its own private screened patio with a gate into the main garden.

The woods are directly opposite the front door and have several paths that lead along to our paddock or down to the river (Widdale Beck) that has native crayfish, trout and grayling. The woods are home to red squirrels and roe deer can often be seen sleeping in the dappled shade. Other wildlife includes: tawny owls; merlin; kestrel; woodpeckers; and several game birds. We have several books for identifying birds, animals, plants and trees, so take them with you in to the woods and see what else can be spotted.

The woods are also home to our chickens, so you can take a stroll and collect your own eggs for breakfast.

Please see our Slide Show for more photographs

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Disability-friendly Features

Please see below for our Access Statement

When we refurbished the property in 2005 we endeavoured to include as many 'disability friendly' features as possible in to the ground floor bedroom.

Access to 'Garden Room' - ground-floor bedroom

There is level access to the bedroom via the French windows from where the room's main lights can be switched. Alternatively, there are three steps to the main entrance with a semi circular, cambered ramp (pictured right). Please contact us if you would like to discuss the current access arrangements.

The main features we have been able to address are:

• Light switches are at 1200mm or below
• Plug sockets are above 600mm
• The door to the en-suite shower room opens outwards in to the bedroom to maximise the space inside the bathroom.

And in the en-suite

• The tiled floor is heated and also forms the shower floor, so that there is no step up as with a traditional shower tray
• The electric towel rail has a temperature controller to limit its surface temperature
• The shower mixer tap is 1200mm high
• There is a stool in the shower area
• There are handles around the wc and in the shower
• The wash basin has a lever-operated single mixer tap

We have been constrained by the position of doors and the following door widths have been achieved:

• French window with only one of the doors open: 760mm
• Main guest outside door: 830mm
• Door from guest hall to 'Garden Room': 750mm
• Door from guest hall to Dining Room: 860mm

If you are disabled or have special requirements please discuss these with us when you book so that we can do everything in our power to make your stay as easy and comfortable as possible. Do please contact us if you have any questions.

Access Statement

Arrival & Car Parking Facilities

• There is a car park at the front of the property for 5 vehicles.
• Assistance with luggage etc is available from the car park to the bedrooms.
• Access to the front door is by three steps or a cambered semi circular ramp. There is a threshold step into the building which is 10 cm high, the door way is 83cm wide, the floor is tiled, there is a slight slope and then the ground floor is level throughout the ground floor.
• A familiarisation tour of the building is given to all guests.
• There are doors from the hallway to the dining room and ground floor bedroom.
• The contact phone number is displayed at the front of the building.
• The nearest main line train station is at Garsdale.
• There are a number of bus services
• Hawes is the nearest town, approx 1.5 miles away.
• There is a taxi service available in the area.

Public Areas - Hall, Stairs & Landing

• There are two floors available for the public to use, the first floor is accessed by a staircase and houses two of the guest bedrooms. With the exception of the hall and bathrooms all of the floors are carpeted.
• The stairs have 12 steps that are 20cm high, 27cm deep and 75 cm wide, with a wooden hand rail down one side.
• All doors are FD30 fire doors.

Public Areas – Dining Room

• The dining room is on the ground floor and has a carpeted floor, the door way is 86cm wide.

Additional Information

• Evacuation and fire procedure is detailed in room information pack.
• The building is totally none smoking.
• Mobile phone reception is poor. There are no specific public telephones however guests can use the owner’s telephone.

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