Find your perfect Christmas cottage
It's never too early to lock in the perfect cottage for your festive stay, so explore options for 2027 now.
Christmas and New Year cottages
However you'd like to spend the festive season, there's a hall, cottage or apartment for your plans. Choose a house with room to gather, or a spot so remote you'll forget what day it is.
If spending Christmas Day with views of your own deserted beach sounds good, try Bar Lodge. Or you might fancy a big house like Craflwyn Hall with its own bar and plentiful reception rooms, or Higher Brownstone Farm with its games room. Whisking the one you love away for a Christmas or New Year for two could be the perfect gift, whether Mustard Pot Cottage fits the bill, or The Apple Store.
Is this your perfect Christmas cottage?
This beachside retreat could be yours this Christmas.
Bar Lodge, Loe Bar Beach, Cornwall
A dreamy place to spend your festive break, with terrace views of the sea and sunset. It's perfect for a seasonal gathering, with a lovely dining room, cosy sitting room and three bedrooms.
Loe Pool and the woodlands of the Penrose Estate are just behind the lodge.
You can walk around the pool on a 10km circular trail to explore woodland, marshland and the coast, stopping halfway at the Stables Café. There are many other footpaths and bridleways to choose from.
A New Year stay for 10
It's not too late to rally your best friends together to book the New Year stay you've always talked about.
Court, by the Helford River estuary, Cornwall
This holiday rental is in the East Wing of a country house, built in Arts and Crafts style around 1880. Inside, you'll find a large sitting room with woodburner, a dining room opening onto a cobbled courtyard and five lovely bedrooms.
Take a new year's day walk down by the water.
Whether you're looking for time to relax after a busy festive week or space to celebrate the coming year, this house has it all. As well as a large shared garden, you'll find countryside on the doorstep and the coast path and Grebe Beach just a 10-minute walk away.
More cottages for Christmas 2026
Seaview
With views over Studland Bay, this former tennis pavilion makes a quirky holiday escape.
East Rosetta Cottage
On the seafront at Cowes, this beautiful 19th century house is full of original features.
Florence Court Rose Cottage
A charming gardener’s cottage with an apple orchard view at Florence Court.
Spyway
On a working farm not far from the sea, this cosy and contemporary cottage is dog-friendly and has bags of charm.
Low Strawberry Gardens
A simple lakeside retreat for an uplugged holiday, with a jetty to launch your canoe or kayak into Windermere.
Kymin Round House
A little castle for two, with views over Monmouth and far into Wales.
Cartref
In the heart of Eryri (Snowdonia), this cosy wooden cottage is the perfect retreat for walkers.
Mustard Pot Cottage
Sitting in the woodlands of the Felbrigg estate, this cosy and quirky cottage has a modern interior.
More cottages for New Year 2026/27
Town Walls Tower
An unusual retreat in the last remaining watchtower on Shrewsbury’s medieval walls.
Pontbrenmydyr
A delightful vernacular cottage with a little bit of history in all its nooks and crannies.
The Cheese House
Discover golden beaches, ruined castles and rolling countryside from this cosy, rural escape at the heart of the Jurassic coast.
Proctor
A stylish third-floor apartment in the beautiful Fountains Hall with views of the river Skell.
Mottistone Rose Cottage
A large private garden and roses tumbling across its stone front make this cottage a stunning place to stay.
Butler's Apartment
An 18th-century apartment in the laundry yard of Florence Court, with out-of-hours access to historic gardens, orchards and woodland.
Harbour View
A great location on the valley floor overlooking the quayside in the pretty village of Boscastle.
Chatham
The west wing of a large country house, with views across the Helford River.
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