Tufton Croft

Lovely, peaceful cottage in great location for days out.

We stayed here with our two children for five nights in June. The cottage's driveway was a little difficult to locate at first but we found it on the second pass. The cottage itself looked deceptively small. On entering we were pleased to find ourselves with a lot of space including a good sized kitchen, dining and living areas, and bedrooms. The cottage was beautifully decorated and clean, with everything we needed for our stay including a welcome hamper of food.

Wittersham is a nice village. Oxney Gourmet Pie and Burger Bar is on the same street, and the village store was also a short walk away and well-stocked. The location is great for use as a base for driving to destinations in Kent and East Sussex

We would happily recommend Tufton Croft to family and friends.

We really enjoyed our stay at Tufton Croft. It was a very attractive, and peaceful cottage, spacious and well-equipped. The location was excellent with all sorts of beautiful places of interest to visit in the surrounding area. Many thanks to the housekeeper for being so helpful and making us welcome.

Did not represent value for money for this time of year. Much to expensive. Quality marginal for Rural Retreats standards.

Spotlessly clean and well appointed. A lovely environment.
A few more pieces of basic equipment in the kitchen would have been useful - e.g. a cheese grater, some wooden spoons, additional crockery. Previous reviews have consistently mentioned this.

Nothing more to say

Amazing property. Beautifully equipped.

The interior of the property and the finish couldn't be faulted, it was a comfortable home from home with facilities consistent with the rate charged. However the outside of the property was poorly kept up. The approach is down a driveway. At the time of the visit tall hedges either side had not been cut back and the branches scrapped both sides of our small hatchback car. There is no hard surface access from the drive to the front door, the two gates both have a grass area you have to pass over. At the time of our break (late June) it had been raining. To go from the house to the car meant stepping on to soft muddy area getting decent shoes dirty each time. Also the grass strip down the middle of the long drive hadn't been cut so you could only walk out of the property in Wellington boots. The two access paths up to the house were uneven and unsafe for any elderly or infirm persons and this wasn't helped by the porch light not working. This is a shame as the property is a one storey building which could be very useful for the elderly or disabled if the access up to the property was improved. The porch roof leaked badly also.
The weatherboarding and front three windows had not been cleaned for sometime and spoilt the view on to the mature garden.
We did contact Rural Retreats during our stay and there was some attempt made to cut the longest branches off the hedges in the drive and to cut the lawns which we were grateful for.
It's a shame the outside lets this cottage down badly. Comments had been left in the Visiitors book indicating that these problems had been ongoing over a few years.

So many little things were appreciated. Advice on shopping locations, lovely fresh groceries left & all the information provided to operate the various appliances - and a caretaker to answer any query that arose!! Thank you.

The cottage is beautiful, the location perfect for peace. It's well equipped and has thoughtful touches, for example toys and games covering a wide range of ages, good kitchen equipment, thoughtful goodies on arrival to make first day or so easy, good log burning provisions for damp spring weather!

Mostly very nice, and a lovely location. The place was well-presented.

We had to discover for ourselves how to use the TV, as the remote did not work: we resorted to direct manipulation of the TV's router. Others had had this problem, I think.

The hot water supply did not nearly fill the bath tub, so my mother had to wash herself on her hands and knees - a pity for a 93 year old who really enjoys a bath..

The cottage was very clean and homely, with several thoughtful touches. Great garden. Difficult to find, as the road speed sign indicating we were there, was completely obscured by foliage. All you could see was a "Public footpath" sign - which we didn't initially feel was the right turning as it was very narrow and overgrown in places. In the cottage there was no info at all on the appliances. Had to phone the housekeeper to ask how to get the tv to work, and also needed to resort to "Google"! I left a note for the housekeeper as we found much of the crockery to be chipped - which was disappointing.

It's a very comfortable cottage, spacious, light and airy. It was spotlessly clean and was warm and welcoming.
Unfortunately we had heavy rain on our first day and returned to find water coming in through the hall ceiling and a large puddle on the floor. The ceiling showed signs of its having happened before and, when I reported it to the housekeeper, she confirmed that this was the case and that the owners know about it.
The water system is a bit odd. Drawing water (hot or cold) in kitchen or shower room stopped the water running in the main bathroom. (There were some comments about this in the guest book.)
If it were not for these two problems (which did not spoil our stay) in every other respect I would go to excellent as a rating

Quiet location,comfortably furnished,very dog friendly.Only criticism would be more pots and pans in the kitchen.

The property was beautiful. The kitchen needs more basic equipment such as another frying pan, baking trays for the oven. There isn't really enough cutlery/crockery if there were more than 2 of you. The wood burner is really tricky if you are not used to them. The mud really, really does need to be cleaned from outside the front door and garden path as it is very slippery.

Great quality property. Spacious and comfortable. Lovely welcome pack and extras (dog treats, Christmas decorations). Spotlessly clean. Would definitely return.

Cottage was as described and felt very homey. Christmas tree and decorations were a nice extra touch and much appreciated. Great walks in the immediate area. A coffee machine would be nice as cafetiere too small for four and inconvenient to use. Whilst the property was clean overall, there were some dusty areas, and we had to clean the oven before use as it was very dirty.

Lovely cottage, exactly as described, if not better - the photos dont do it justice. We will be back!