hobbit home plans revealed
Marriage ceremony budgets can undergo the roof, however a fairytale planning bid within the idyllic Cotswold hamlet of Harescombe guarantees to maintain the bride and groom’s finances firmly underground.
A Cotswold vacation let venue at 168-acre Grade-II listed Hayes Farm, close to Haresfield, is looking for permission to transform a Dutch barn, add a minigolf space and panorama adjoining land – whereas including a fantasy-style hobbit home.
Stroud-based consultants Acre Planning, who’re dealing with the bid earlier than planning officers, say the mission is more likely to are available at between £300,000 and £400,000 and can symbolize the ultimate stage of 5 current property lets on the upmarket venue.
Director Tim Brookman stated: “The hobbit home ought to be an actual inspiration, not least as a result of it is going to be just under a really previous tree, beneath which Beatrix Potter is alleged to have lingered whereas looking for inspiration.”
In 1894 Beatrix Potter visited her cousin, Caroline Hutton, at close by Harescombe Grange, the go to inspiring her story The Tailor of Gloucester.
The hobbit home is proposed to take a seat inside an current slope on land and be used solely together with wedding ceremony occasions.
“The one-room constructing could be reduce into the hill and sheltered by the encompassing floor. The roof could be grassed, that means solely the entrance elevation could be seen. The entrance elevation would come with a spherical timber door, window and a pure stone wall,” the proposal outlines.
“The constructing could be used as the point of interest for wedding ceremony ceremonies, with the room utilized by {couples} to signal the register in personal. Given the distinctive nature of the constructing and the setting, it could be used for wedding ceremony pictures as a focus inside the website.”
The bid, which entails change of use from agricultural to amenity use for the Dutch barn, additionally outlines an orchard, an attenuation pond with a six-hole surrounding minigolf course and further parking.
Visitor capability for the barn would permit 64 seated with 80 as a most. For different ‘standing’ occasions, a most variety of 120 is anticipated, whereas three-day weekend occasions woud require parking for 32 vehicles, with standing occasions requiring areas for 48.
The positioning lies inside the Cotswolds Space of Excellent Pure Magnificence AONB, whereas the quaint Saint John the Baptist Church, in-built 1315, is inside strolling distance. The church homes the oldest working bell in Gloucestershire.
