“Ambleside has good amenities and well situated.”
Slightly smaller and darker accommodation than expected, perhaps our wishful thinking. The house is end terrace adjacent at rear to parking for a garage business and a workshop style semi-derelict lean-to, which is not clear from pictures in listing, though not a problem. The top floor bedroom ceiling is challenging for taller people. Living room sofas feel tired. Oven in kitchen was not clean and impossible to get clean. Oven does not work to temperature and burns food. Controls on oven not ...
Slightly smaller and darker accommodation than expected, perhaps our wishful thinking. The house is end terrace adjacent at rear to parking for a garage business and a workshop style semi-derelict lean-to, which is not clear from pictures in listing, though not a problem. The top floor bedroom ceiling is challenging for taller people. Living room sofas feel tired. Oven in kitchen was not clean and impossible to get clean. Oven does not work to temperature and burns food. Controls on oven not visible. Taps are quirky and take some getting used to. Bathroom basin cold tap loose. Bathroom would benefit from extractor fan. Hard to dry and hang coats and clothes in wet weather. Parking permit useful. Washing machine accessible behind a removable panel in the kitchen, works well. Fridge freezer, wifi and TV reliable and good. Hot water and heating good. Shower perhaps too powerful. With four of us, an extra toilet would have been handy (our lookout, ditto no dishwasher). We swept courtyard when we arrived, and vacuumed the house. Steps down to house are getting overgrown with vegetation at top; slippery in wet. One of the legs nearest the door of the double bed was loose and reinserted into its socket, but could come adrift. Lakelovers / Heart of the Lakes agency were helpful with fresh towels after a week. The house is very quiet considering you are surrounded by other houses more or less in the centre of town. We attended before school holidays started.