If You've Been Looking For A Little Lakeland Retreat That's Away From It All, Acorn Cottage Your Perfect Escape. Exposed beams, an original open fireplace and fell views from the bedroom - in the quieter western Lakes, just twenty minutes walk from Ennerdale Water.

Ennerdale doesn't get the Windermere crowds or the Keswick coach parties. What it gets instead is clued-up walkers and fell runners and the occasional red squirrel. It's a valley that rewards the people who make the effort to find it - and Acorn Cottage sits right in the middle of it.

The cottage is cosy but it certainly doesn't feel cramped. The beamed lounge has the kind of low ceiling and original open fireplace that makes you want to cancel your plans and just stay put. It's the sort of room that looks exactly right with a glass of something and the fire going on a wet Lakeland evening - which, let's be honest, is part of the appeal.

The kitchen/diner is a practical space with flagstone floors and room for a proper dining table - no perching on stools here. A pine kitchen with dark worktops keeps the feel warm and cottagey.

Upstairs, the double bedroom has original shutters on the window and a fireplace of its own - a detail that gives it a quiet period character that guests tend to notice and mention. The fell views from up here are the real thing - open fields, trees and the hills rising behind them.

The bathroom is straightforward, clean and modern, with a shower over the bath. Outside, there's an enclosed yard with a picnic bench - low maintenance, practical and private. There's also an option to purchase a summerhouse and additional garden.

Ennerdale Bridge is about a fifteen-minute walk away, with The Gather café, a village shop and a couple of pubs. Ennerdale Water is twenty minutes on foot in the other direction - one of the least visited and most beautiful lakes in the whole National Park.

Whether you're looking for a weekend bolthole, a holiday let that earns when you're not using it, or simply a little corner of the Lakes to call your own - Acorn Cottage could be just right.

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